This is only half or three quarters of an answer really, but hopefully you can fill in the gaps. You could try using the VisualBrush
Class. First you set up the visual that the VisualBrush
will paint using your full Canvas
:
VisualBrush visualBrush = new VisualBrush();
visualBrush.Visual = yourCanvasElement;
You then paint with the Brush
onto, let's say, a Rectangle
element:
Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle();
...
rectangle.Fill = visualBrush;
You can then use the VisualBrush.Viewbox
property to move the content about. Now I think that there is some way of zooming in and out, but I can't remember at the moment.
Alternatively, you could use the ViewBox
class. You can get your zooming effect by changing the size of the content and the ViewBox
and get your panning effect by using a ScrollViewer
. There's a post on StackOverflow that demonstrates this, so please take a look at the Zooming To Mouse Point With ScrollView and ViewBox in Wpf post for more help with this method.