Is there some elegant way how to allow pasting into WPF TextBox that has AcceptsTab set to false while preserving tabs in the pasted text ?
When AcceptsTab is true, then user can't use tabs to move to next control, which isn't desired by my users. But they want to have tabs that are pasted, which currently are replaced by spaces.
Thank you
I am not sure this qualifies as elegant but it works but might not be as complete as you want (e.g. when right-clicking in the textbox and selecting Paste from the context menu).
See Paste Event in a WPF TextBox
Set the AcceptsTab to true just before Ctrl-V is processed and restore it after:
XAML:
<TextBox AcceptsTab="False"
Height="200"
PreviewKeyDown="TextBox_PreviewKeyDown"
KeyUp="TextBox_KeyUp"/>
C#:
private void TextBox_PreviewKeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (!(sender is TextBox textbox))
{
return;
}
if (e.Key == Key.V && (e.KeyboardDevice.IsKeyDown(Key.LeftCtrl) || e.KeyboardDevice.IsKeyDown(Key.RightCtrl)))
{
textbox.AcceptsTab = true;
}
}
private void TextBox_KeyUp(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (!(sender is TextBox textbox))
{
return;
}
textbox.AcceptsTab = false;
}
This could be turned into a behavior so it would be easier to apply it to more textboxes without writing code behind.
Another approach is by setting AcceptsTab to true and moving the focus when (Shift) Tab is pressed.
The nice side effect is that all the copy/paste scenarios will still function but the user will not be able to type a tab.
private void TextBox_PreviewKeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
if (e.Key == Key.Tab)
{
var textBox = sender as TextBox;
if (textBox != null)
{
var direction =
e.KeyboardDevice.IsKeyDown(Key.LeftShift) || e.KeyboardDevice.IsKeyDown(Key.RightShift)
? FocusNavigationDirection.Previous
: FocusNavigationDirection.Next;
textBox.MoveFocus(new TraversalRequest(direction));
}
}
}
Is there a way to get OnItemRightTapped event on ListView or GridView that works exactly like ItemClick, except obviously react only on right tap?
You can add an event handler for mouse down and then determine the click source in the code:
private void listView_MouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
if (e.ChangedButton == MouseButton.Right)
{
// Do what u need to do here
}
else
e.Handled = true;
}
I would like to set the focus of a WPF TextBox from codebehind (not the TextBox's codebehind, but some parent control) and select all text in the TextBox from the TextBoxs codebehind when it receives that focus.
I focus the TextBox like this:
var scope = FocusManager.GetFocusScope(txt);
FocusManager.SetFocusedElement(scope, txt);
and listen to the event in the TextBox like this in the TextBoxs codebehind:
AddHandler(GotFocusEvent, new RoutedEventHandler(SelectAllText), true);
and try to select the text like this:
private static void SelectAllText(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
var textBox = e.OriginalSource as TextBox;
if (textBox != null)
textBox.SelectAll();
}
But the text doesn't get selected. How can I modify this to work as I'd like it to?
You will have to set Keyboard focus on the TextBox before selecting the text
Example:
private static void SelectAllText(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
var textBox = e.OriginalSource as TextBox;
if (textBox != null)
{
Keyboard.Focus(textBox);
textBox.SelectAll();
}
}
A ListBox and a ContextMenu are created dynamicaly. The ListBox has some items.
How do I know the ListBoxItem Text that right mouse button clicked on?
private void Init2()
{
ContextMenu contextMenu = new ContextMenu();
MenuItem menuItemOpen = new MenuItem();
menuItemOpen.Click += new RoutedEventHandler(menuItemOpen_Click);
contextMenu.Items.Add(menuItemOpen);
listBox1.ContextMenu = contextMenu;
}
void menuItemOpen_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
//How do I know the listItem text that right mouse button clicked on?
}
When you right click, you actually also select. So that means you can just do:
private void MenuItem_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
string selectedListBoxItemText = ((ListBoxItem)listBox1.SelectedItem).Content.ToString());
// do your thing
}
I've got a rather funny problem with WPF. I have a tree-view, and selecting items works fine so far. The problem is, I want to unselect the currently selected item when the user clicks inside the blank area of the treeview. By default, the treeview keeps the current item selected, and I have added a context-menu option to deselect it, which is rather hardcore:
// Note: This is done recursivly from the start, so it
// works for child items as well
treeView.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(treeView.SelectedItem) as TreeViewItem).IsSelected = false;
Moreover, this is counter-intuitive, as it requires the user to right-click first, and second, after deselecting it with this way, the user cannot select it any more by clicking on the item. How is this supposed to work?
Edit: Some more information: I've added a handler to the TreeView to handle mouse click events, but the sender is always a TreeView instance, even if I click directly on a TreeViewItem. If I add a handler to my TreeView.ItemTemplate instead (i.e. the first child in the template), I never get events when I click on the empty area (which is rather logical). The code looks like this:
private void MyTreeView_MouseUp(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
if ((sender as TreeViewItem) == null)
{
// Always triggered
System.Diagnostics.Trace.Write("Empty area clicked");
}
}
And the XAML for this is:
<TreeView x:Name="MyTreeView" Margin="3" MouseUp="MyTreeView_MouseUp">
I found this to work much better for me. I check the originalsource which for me if it comes form a treeviewitem will be an image or a textblock. I also use a view object with a HierarchicalDataTemplate and the BasicTreeViewBase is the base class for all of my different objects. Here is the code.
private void TemplateTreeView_MouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
if (e.ChangedButton == MouseButton.Right && !(e.OriginalSource is Image) && !(e.OriginalSource is TextBlock))
{
BasicTreeViewBase item = TemplateTreeView.SelectedItem as BasicTreeViewBase;
if (item != null)
{
TemplateTreeView.Focus();
item.IsSelected = false;
}
}
}
The un-selectable problem can be solved with a call to Focus on the TreeView after setting TreeViewItem.IsSelected.
There can be two more problem :
The treeview is binded so the SelectedItem is an item of the binded collection.
There is many levels so ItemContainerGenerator do not contain deepest level objects
for all this reason i use this function, but the selection must not fire any events.
private void UnselectTreeViewItem(TreeView pTreeView)
{
if(pTreeView.SelectedItem == null)
return;
if(pTreeView.SelectedItem is TreeViewItem)
{
(pTreeView.SelectedItem as TreeViewItem).IsSelected = false;
}
else
{
TreeViewItem item = pTreeView.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromIndex(0) as TreeViewItem;
if (item != null)
{
item.IsSelected = true;
item.IsSelected = false;
}
}
}
I implemented a general selection control once, and required this behaviour.
This is how my method looked (adapted for treeview):
protected override void OnMouseUp(MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
base.OnMouseUp(e);
DependencyObject dpSource = e.OriginalSource as DependencyObject;
if (dpSource.FindVisualAncestor(o => typeof(TreeViewItem).IsAssignableFrom(o.GetType())) == null)
UnselectAll();
}
Basically, walk up the tree from the source. If a TreeViewItem was not found, than the user clicked empty space.
Use the extension class below
public static class TreeViewExtensions
{
public static TreeViewItem ContainerFromItem(this TreeView treeView, object item)
{
TreeViewItem containerThatMightContainItem = (TreeViewItem)treeView.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(item);
if (containerThatMightContainItem != null)
return containerThatMightContainItem;
else
return ContainerFromItem(treeView.ItemContainerGenerator, treeView.Items, item);
}
private static TreeViewItem ContainerFromItem(ItemContainerGenerator parentItemContainerGenerator, ItemCollection itemCollection, object item)
{
foreach (object curChildItem in itemCollection)
{
TreeViewItem parentContainer = (TreeViewItem)parentItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(curChildItem);
TreeViewItem containerThatMightContainItem = (TreeViewItem)parentContainer.ItemContainerGenerator.ContainerFromItem(item);
if (containerThatMightContainItem != null)
return containerThatMightContainItem;
TreeViewItem recursionResult = ContainerFromItem(parentContainer.ItemContainerGenerator, parentContainer.Items, item);
if (recursionResult != null)
return recursionResult;
}
return null;
}
}
Then in MouseDown event of treeview use the extension method as below:
private void trview_MouseDown(object sender, System.Windows.Input.MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
if ((sender as TreeViewItem) == null)
{
if (this.trview.ContainerFromItem(trview.SelectedItem) != null)
{
this.trview.ContainerFromItem(trview.SelectedItem).IsSelected = false;
}
}
this.trview.Focus();
}
Hope it works for you. I have it working in this way...
I was running into this situation myself with a custom Tree List View implementation after looking for a long time I finally found a solution that worked for me.
The full explanation can be found at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/36aca7f7-0b47-488b-8e16-840b86addfa3/getting-treeviewitem-for-the-selected-item-in-a-treeview
The basic idea is you capture the TreeViewItem.Selected event and save the source of the event into the Tag attribute on your TreeView. Then when you need to clear it, you can access the Tag attribute on your control and set the IsSelected value to False. This works for me with 2 levels of nested children. Hopefully it will work for you.
For persistence sake:
TreeView declaration
<TreeView Name="myTreeView" TreeViewItem.Selected="OnItemSelected"
ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource myHierarchicalData}}"/>
Event Handler
private void OnItemSelected(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
myTreeView.Tag = e.OriginalSource;
}
Clear selection logic
if (myTreeView.SelectedItem != null)
{
TreeViewItem selectedTVI = myTreeView.Tag as TreeViewItem;
// add your code here mine was selectedTVI.IsSelected = false;
}
This will deselect the currently selected TreeViewItem if none were clicked:
private void MyTreeView_PreviewMouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e) {
if ((sender as TreeViewItem) == null) {
TreeViewItem item = MyTreeView.SelectedItem as TreeViewItem;
if(item != null){
item.IsSelected = false;
}
}
}
Hope this is what you were looking for!
MVVM: Call this method in the eventhandler righ/left mouse click:
private void SetTreeViewSelection(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs mouseButtonEventArgs)
{
var treeView = (TreeView)sender;
if (treeView.SelectedItem == null)
{
return;
}
IInputElement dropNode = treeView.InputHitTest(mouseButtonEventArgs.GetPosition(treeView));
if (dropNode is ScrollViewer)
{
var myBindableObject = (MyBindableObject)treeView.SelectedItem;
myBindableObject.IsSelected = false;
}
}
For a C# treeview you use treeview.SelectedNode = null; I'm not sure if this works for WPF.