LostFocus not firing when parent loses focus

[Einar]

I have an issue where if I click on controls outside of the Window that contains my MaskedTextInput the LostFocus event doesn't fire. The control is technically working correctly, but I believe what I'm really after is something such as LostKeyboardFocus (but that option doesn't exist in the databinding.

Unfortunately using PropertyChanged event is not an option in my case. Thoughts?

I'm committing the value like so: 

Value="{Binding BusinessPostalCode, UpdateSourceTrigger=LostFocus}"

[Sia]

Hello Einar,

Unfortunately you cannot use the LostFocus event for this purpose. If you test the same behavior when using TextBox instead of MaskedTextInput, you will see that again the LostFocus event is not fired if you click outside the Window. Every application/window has its own Keyboard Focus and when you click outside it and after that again on it the focused element is preserved. That is why the LostFocus is not fired.

What I can suggest is to use the Window Deactivated event and check whether the focus is on the MaskedTextInput:

private void Window_Deactivated(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (this.Mask.IsKeyboardFocusWithin)
    {
        //***//
    }

You need to implement some custom logic depending on your requirements.

Regards,
Sia
Telerik

[Einar]

Thanks for your suggestion Sia, I ended up just adding a LostKeyboardFocus event handler and manually set my view model property to the Value property for the control. It seems to work well.