Spinning CarouselPanel in ComboBox via Mouse - windows-8

Question

I am currently re-templating the ComboBox in a Metro XAML application.
The ItemsPanel is the standard CarouselPanel, which acts like a tumbler, endlessly revolving through the items list - nice !
An added nice detail, is that in the VS/Blend simulator if you 'flick' the items with the touch pointer then the carousel 'spins', rather like the Date tumbler in Windows Phone.
My problem is, when used in Desktop mode (via a mouse) I cant re-created the same spinning effect. there seems to be some kind of failure in the maouse/touch guesture translation.
Doesn anyone have any ideas about how to get this to work ?

Answer 1

At first I thought it might be like the GridView which does not bubble up the mouse wheel events. But then I tried the code below and the mouse wheel does spin it. It doesn't do this in Blend, but it does it at runtime fine.
<Grid Background="Black">
<ComboBox VerticalAlignment="Top">
<x:String>0</x:String>
<x:String>1</x:String>
<x:String>2</x:String>
<x:String>3</x:String>
<x:String>4</x:String>
<x:String>5</x:String>
<x:String>6</x:String>
<x:String>7</x:String>
<x:String>8</x:String>
<x:String>9</x:String>
<x:String>10</x:String>
<x:String>11</x:String>
<x:String>12</x:String>
<x:String>13</x:String>
<x:String>14</x:String>
<x:String>15</x:String>
<x:String>16</x:String>
<x:String>17</x:String>
<x:String>18</x:String>
<x:String>19</x:String>
<x:String>20</x:String>
<x:String>21</x:String>
<x:String>22</x:String>
<x:String>23</x:String>
<x:String>24</x:String>
<x:String>25</x:String>
<x:String>26</x:String>
<x:String>27</x:String>
<x:String>28</x:String>
<x:String>29</x:String>
</ComboBox>
</Grid>
Best of luck!