Managing WPF keyboard focus can be a challenge, especially if you’re retrofitting an application that’s full of custom styles and templates, and lots of customized ItemControls, each of which was originally designed by your Designer principally for pointer-based input.
Tab-tab-tab between controls should “just work,” but it turns out, it’s a lot more complicated (with good reason) than just setting the tab order.
Mark Smith just posted a series of very practical series of three articles about this subject. However, he has no contact link or comments enabled in his blog (that I could find), so the best I can do is link to him here. Thank you Mark!
Part 2: Changing WPF Focus in Code
Part 3: Shifting focus to the first available element in WPF
My biggest learning from this process? No matter what you’re buliding, don’t let keyboard focus in your application be an afterthought!
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Donald Brothers says
Any idea how to, with no code behind, within a WPF TabControl, tab from the last control on a given TabItem (maybe a textbox) to the first control on the next TabItem?
April 18, 2011Ido Ran says
Hi,
This issue is really important to me but the links are broken.
Any place to get them back again?
Thank you,
August 25, 2011Ido.
Ido Ran says
The permalink is not working but the posts are still there, just use google to find it.
August 25, 2011Sorry for the bugging.