Question

I have a bing map in my application which users can lock using the following function:

private void btnLock_Checked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) {
  if (btnLock == null || btnLock.IsChecked == null) {
    return;
  }
  map.IsHitTestVisible = !btnLock.IsChecked.Value;
}

Now, when I have pushpins on the map, i want the users to be able to click on them still, but that’s not possible when the map is locked. How do i prevent the users from dragging the map but keep them enabled to click the pushpins?

Answer 1

It’d be nice if there were a bool property you could just set to false, but it looks like that doesn’t exist. How about this?

You can disable the related panning and zooming functions by handling the doubleclick, drag, etc events from the map and setting e.Handled = true.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/vemapcontroldev/thread/4e1ee9f7-5445-41c6-8685-0b058c42c894

I haven’t tried it, but I imagine for Windows Phone you’d handle events like MapPan, Tap, DoubleTap, and MouseWheel. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.phone.controls.maps.map.aspx