John Schroedl
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John Schroedl
asked on 19 Nov 2010, 04:44 PM
Hi,
When my app first starts, I am able usually to Tab among the panes in our main window (which uses RadDocking) and their children just fine.
However, after performing a drag rearrangement of the panes if I press Tab it does not work.
Tab also fails if we create a few other top-level windows then activate our main window (which has the docking panes).
I used Spy++ and a utility I created to monitor which Win32 hwnd has focus. I see that for both cases, focus is left in the large transparent window which hosts all the floating panes, compasses and visual cues.
A workaround is simply to click in the window again but it's confounding to our power users who use the keyboard a lot.
Does anyone have any ideas how we could avoid this? In my admittedly-limited experience, that transparent window sure seems to be a trouble-maker as there are other problems it causes as well.
John
When my app first starts, I am able usually to Tab among the panes in our main window (which uses RadDocking) and their children just fine.
However, after performing a drag rearrangement of the panes if I press Tab it does not work.
Tab also fails if we create a few other top-level windows then activate our main window (which has the docking panes).
I used Spy++ and a utility I created to monitor which Win32 hwnd has focus. I see that for both cases, focus is left in the large transparent window which hosts all the floating panes, compasses and visual cues.
A workaround is simply to click in the window again but it's confounding to our power users who use the keyboard a lot.
Does anyone have any ideas how we could avoid this? In my admittedly-limited experience, that transparent window sure seems to be a trouble-maker as there are other problems it causes as well.
John
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Hi John,
George
the Telerik team
I would suggest you to set the focus on the window in the codebehind. I hope this suits your needs. We schedule some major changes of the RadDocking control, but this won't be done until Q1 2011.
George
the Telerik team
Browse the videos here>> to help you get started with RadControls for WPF
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Kais
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answered on 23 Feb 2011, 10:08 PM
Hi there,
I don't know if this is related but I found a transparent window called FakePopup.cs in the RadDocking source code. This stole focus when I had docking managers nested inside a tab control & switched tabs.
If you have a source code license, to resolve this issue you can set Window.ShowWindowActivated to false inside FakePopup.Open() (right before window.Show) and recompile the binaries.
I don't know if this is related but I found a transparent window called FakePopup.cs in the RadDocking source code. This stole focus when I had docking managers nested inside a tab control & switched tabs.
If you have a source code license, to resolve this issue you can set Window.ShowWindowActivated to false inside FakePopup.Open() (right before window.Show) and recompile the binaries.