Disable automatically switching to contextual tab when IsActive is set to true

[Joel]

When someone clicks on a pane that has an associated contextual tab, I want the tab to appear on the RibbonView, but I don't want to always switch to it.

It seems like the currently selected tab isn't resolved until after the function that sets the IsActive property to true completes.  Usually, calling UpdateLayout() will force the UI to update, but didn't work this time.  Any ideas how to stop the contextual tab from grabbing focus?

[Petar Mladenov]

Hello Joel,

 You can use the PreviewSelectionChanged event of the RadRibbonView
in order to prevent the selection of the first tab in the Contextual Group.

private void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
       {
           this.ContextGroupA.IsActive = true;
           this.rribbonView.PreviewSelectionChanged += (s, ee) =>
               {
                   ee.Handled = true;
               };
       }

Please let us know if this fits in your scenario. Best wishes,
Petar Mladenov
the Telerik team

[Joel]

Thanks Petar, that works great!