Disable the swap in WP8 - windows-phone-8

Question

I'm developing windows phone 8 application.
How I can disable the swap between the items in the pivot page ? since I disabled the IsHitTestVisible property to do that.
But When I used it ; controls in the item page doesn't accept input from user?
How I can disable the swap ? and allow the input from the user in the same time ?

Answer 1

In order to stop the Pivot on WP8 for switching PivotItems, use the new Pivot.IsLocked=true property. Read more about it here # http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/microsoft.phone.controls.pivot.islocked(v=vs.105).aspx
For example, this code snippet shows how to use Pivot.IsLocked on WP8:
<phone:Pivot IsLocked="True">
<phone:PivotItem Header="Foo">
<TextBox />
</phone:PivotItem>
<phone:PivotItem Content="Bar" Header="Bar" />
<phone:PivotItem Content="Baz" Header="Baz" />
</phone:Pivot>
When you run this code snippet you can see the Pivot only shows the first PivotItem but you can still interact with it (which isn't possible if you simply set IsEnabled=False).
For WP7, use there's a LockablePivot in the Windows Phone toolkit that support this same property. Read more about it here # http://www.windowsphonegeek.com/articles/Windows-Phone-Toolkit-LockablePivot-in-depth