WPF TreeView PreviewMouseDown on TreeViewItem

Question

If I handle the PreviewMouseDown event on TreeViewItem, I get events for everything I click on that TreeViewItem include the little +/- box to the left (Windows XP). How can I distinguish that?

I tried the following:

// We've had a single click on a tree view item
// Unfortunately this is the WHOLE tree item, including the +/-
// symbol to the left. The tree doesn't do a selection, so we
// have to filter this out...
MouseDevice device = e.Device as MouseDevice;

// This is bad. The whole point of WPF is for the code
// not to know what the UI has - yet here we are testing for
// it as a workaround. Sigh...

// This is broken - if you click on the +/- on a item, it shouldn't
// go on to be processed by OnTreeSingleClick... ho hum!
if (device.DirectlyOver.GetType() != typeof(Path))
{
    OnTreeSingleClick(sender);
}

What I'm after is just single click on the tree view item excluding the extra bits it seems to include.

Answer 1

If my understanding is correct, e.OriginalSource should contain the control you actually clicked on. Make sure it's a TextBlock (or whatever is actually in your TreeView). You could also use something like this post to determine which TreeViewItem the OriginalSource belongs to, if you're paranoid.

Answer 2

My solution is to use the SelectionItemChanged event, seems to avoid issues with the +/- button.