Key Down Selection Broken

[James]

Hello,

I have a problem with items not being selected when you use the keyboard to select them by choosing the first letter of the item's description.

You can replicate this on your demo site, so I won't bother posting any example code:
http://demos.telerik.com/silverlight/#ComboBox/FirstLook

How to replicate: Select BMW using the mouse, then hit the "A" key for Audi, now quickly hit the "O" key for Opel. It should still be on Audi even though you are expecting Opel. If that didn't work just keep jumping around between items quickly using the first letter of their description, you'll eventually hit the problem.

The strange thing is, if you leave a few seconds gap between selecting the next item, things are fine.

Regards,

James.

[Konstantina]

Hi James,

Thank you for contacting us.

This behavior is by design. The ComboBox keeps the value of the pressed buttons for 500 milliseconds, so that the autocomplete can work properly. To achieve the desired behavior you can set the IsEditable property to True and IsReadOnly to True.
Hope this helps.

If you have further questions please let us know.

Best wishes,
Konstantina
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[James]

Hi Konstantina,

I've tried your solution but it has not fixed the problem I'm experiencing.

Once an item is selected using the keyboard I am no longer able to use the keyboard to select another item.

If I select an item using the mouse, I am able to select the next item using the keyboard, but after that I'm stuck again, a second attempt to select an item using the keyboard does not work.

Here is my code:

        <InputControls:RadComboBox Width="100"
                                   Height="22"
                                   IsReadOnly="True"
                                   IsEditable="True">
            <InputControls:RadComboBoxItem Content="A" />
            <InputControls:RadComboBoxItem Content="B" />
            <InputControls:RadComboBoxItem Content="C" />
            <InputControls:RadComboBoxItem Content="D" />
            <InputControls:RadComboBoxItem Content="E" />
        </InputControls:RadComboBox>

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help,
James.

[Boyan]

Hi James,

There is a way to change the time of 500 ms that Konstantina is talking about. Here is how you can change the time after which the value is cleared. Just set in the code behind:

TextSearch.AutoCompleteTimeout = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 0, 0, 1);

This will set this timeout to 1ms instead of 500. Now you will be able to select the items as fast as you wish and there is no need to change IsEditable property to True and IsReadOnly to True.

Let me know if you have further problems.

Sincerely yours,
Boyan
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[James]

Thanks, this has solved my problem.

James.