David Harris
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David Harris
asked on 13 Feb 2009, 05:21 PM
I'm trying to use the NumericUpDown but have encountered a frustrating issue regarding tabbing. By default when I tab through the screen my NumericUpDown controls get focus twice: first on the control as a whole, then on the internal textbox. I'd like to ignore the focus on the overall control and just go straight into the textbox, so I figured I could handle that in the GotFocus event. Unfortunately, the internal textBox control in a Non-Public member, and when I try to access it via reflection I receive a FieldAccessException. So I currently have no way to force focus into the internal textbox.
Am I missing something obvious? If not, are there thoughts about allowing users to set the control to tab straight into the textbox area? Or, at the very least is there a way to access the textbox from my code so that I can force it manually (by setting IsTabStop to False for the NumericUpDown but IsTabStop to True for the internal textBox)?
Am I missing something obvious? If not, are there thoughts about allowing users to set the control to tab straight into the textbox area? Or, at the very least is there a way to access the textbox from my code so that I can force it manually (by setting IsTabStop to False for the NumericUpDown but IsTabStop to True for the internal textBox)?
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Hi David,
I tested this with the 1217 & 1105 versions of the controls and I could not reproduce it. Then I set the IsTabStop property to true and the problem appeared. The IsTabStop property only removes the particular visual item (the control) from the Tab sequence, but not its children.
When I set the IsTabStop property to false (its default value) I see the expected behavior. Currently, the focus will jump directly to the TextBox.
Generally, if you want to get a named visual part of a ControlTemplate, you can use the FindName method on the first visual child of the control. I will only use this when there is definitely no other way to achieve something.
This is the simple xaml that I used to test it:
Please come back to us if I am missing something or the context you use the NumericUpDown in is different.
Regards,
Miroslav
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I tested this with the 1217 & 1105 versions of the controls and I could not reproduce it. Then I set the IsTabStop property to true and the problem appeared. The IsTabStop property only removes the particular visual item (the control) from the Tab sequence, but not its children.
When I set the IsTabStop property to false (its default value) I see the expected behavior. Currently, the focus will jump directly to the TextBox.
Generally, if you want to get a named visual part of a ControlTemplate, you can use the FindName method on the first visual child of the control. I will only use this when there is definitely no other way to achieve something.
This is the simple xaml that I used to test it:
| <StackPanel> |
| <input:RadNumericUpDown /> |
| <input:RadNumericUpDown /> |
| <input:RadNumericUpDown /> |
| <input:RadNumericUpDown /> |
| </StackPanel> |
Please come back to us if I am missing something or the context you use the NumericUpDown in is different.
Regards,
Miroslav
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