Initial Focus on RadToolbar button

[Christian Burkhardt]

Hi,

I have a toolbar with a button on it like this:

    <telerik:RadToolBar Grid.Row="1"
              OverflowButtonVisibility="Visible"
              MouseLeftButtonDown="UIElement_OnMouseLeftButtonDown">


            <telerik:RadButton x:Name="newButton"
                Command="{Binding CreateNewCommand}">
                <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                    <Image Source="../NewDocument.png"
                        Stretch="None"/>
                    <TextBlock Text="New"
                        VerticalAlignment="Center"
                        Margin="5,0,5,0"/>
                </StackPanel>
            </telerik:RadButton>
...

This xaml is part of a user control called MainPage which gets loaded in a user control called Shell, which gets loaded in App.xaml
Client asked to have keyboard shortcuts for my RadToolbar commands, like (Ctrl+Shift+S) for the save button.
I know RadToolbar doesn't support this yet, so I started coding a solution which handles key down evens in the user control "Shell":

        public Shell()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            AddHandler(UIElement.KeyDownEvent, new KeyEventHandler(Shell_OnKeyDown), true);
        }

        private void Shell_OnKeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            if (Keyboard.Modifiers == (ModifierKeys.Control | ModifierKeys.Shift) && e.Key == Key.S)
            {
//do something
            }
        }

This works well in IE. In all the other browsers I have to first click somewhere inside shell, and only then will the keyboard shortcuts work. 
I think it has to do with the fact that no control has the focus.
All I have on the MainPage user control, when it's initially loaded is a toolbar with some buttons.
I've tried setting the focus on a RadButton from the toolbar explicitly, in the LoadedEvent of the user control, but it doesn't work.

Any thoughts on how I could accomplish this?

[Tina Stancheva]

Hi Christian Burkhardt,

You can try focusing the MainPage control when the Shell is loaded like so:

private void Shell_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    System.Windows.Browser.HtmlPage.Plugin.Focus();
    mainPageControl.Focus();
}

That should do the trick.

All the best,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team

[Christian Burkhardt]

Hey, 

Thanks for the quick reply, I tried your code, but doesn't seem to fix the problem  :( 
Have you tried this in a sample and it works for you?

[Tina Stancheva]

Hi Christian Burkhardt,

Please find attached a sample project where this approach is used. It works as expected on our side. Give ti a try on yours and let us know how it goes.

Kind regards,
Tina Stancheva
the Telerik team