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After seeing that virtual scrolling was implemented in 2011 Q2 we all here got really exited - to us it is one of the best ways of intuitively navigating a large dataset. However, when viewing the implementation it unfortunately does not at all seem as usable as we hoped...
Looking at the new functionality at http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/razor/grid/pageonscroll?theme=vista it is implemented a lot like Twitter or Google Reader handles showing more records when reaching the end of the page. Since both those sources handle strictly sorted data, that seems very reasonable
The implementation we were hoping for is more along the lines of this:
http://www.trirand.net/aspnetmvc/grid/performancevirtualscrolling
Here the entire dataset is reachable by scrolling at all times - it is very easy to reach a specific record in a huge number of them since the virtual scrollbar makes it appear as all data is available at all times.
Looking the new implementation here it is obviously very hard to get to a record in the middle of the set (say #400), while in the other linked demo (trirand.net) it is at least reasonable to get to an exact record in the middle of the set (say #250000 in the set of around half a million records).
Is there any hope the other type of virtual scrolling will be implemented?
Thanks
/Victor
Looking at the new functionality at http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/razor/grid/pageonscroll?theme=vista it is implemented a lot like Twitter or Google Reader handles showing more records when reaching the end of the page. Since both those sources handle strictly sorted data, that seems very reasonable
The implementation we were hoping for is more along the lines of this:
http://www.trirand.net/aspnetmvc/grid/performancevirtualscrolling
Here the entire dataset is reachable by scrolling at all times - it is very easy to reach a specific record in a huge number of them since the virtual scrollbar makes it appear as all data is available at all times.
Looking the new implementation here it is obviously very hard to get to a record in the middle of the set (say #400), while in the other linked demo (trirand.net) it is at least reasonable to get to an exact record in the middle of the set (say #250000 in the set of around half a million records).
Is there any hope the other type of virtual scrolling will be implemented?
Thanks
/Victor
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Hello Victor,
Atanas Korchev
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Indeed the paging on scroll feature only loads a the next page of data when the user scrolls. There is no quick way to go the middle of the grid.
We probably will implement UI virtualization (as in the linked example) in a future release.
Atanas Korchev
the Telerik team
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answered on 15 Aug 2011, 09:56 AM
Ok, perfect, thanks for that! Another note: I just remembered that the virtual scrolling issue is closed (http://www.telerik.com/support/pits.aspx#/tracked/aspnet-mvc/3963), probably it shouldnt since the implemented feature is not really the one discussed?
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answered on 02 Feb 2012, 08:29 PM
Please reopen that public issue case, and implement virtual scrolling like
http://www.trirand.net/aspnetmvc/grid/performancevirtualscrolling
http://www.trirand.net/aspnetmvc/grid/performancevirtualscrolling
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answered on 02 Feb 2012, 08:32 PM
Updated link to the incorrectly closed Virtual Scroll feature: http://www.telerik.com/support/pits.aspx#/details/Issue=3963