Focus movement between list and other elements. WPF.

Question

Hello.

In my window I have the listview and other elements. How I can achieve such behavior of focus: when I press downkey on last listitem focus moves from listview on another element, accordingly pressing upkey on first element moves focus away from list. So focus on pressing up-downkeys can move from other elements to the list, pass throw the list and leave from the list.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Set the KeyboardNavigation.DirectionalNavigation attached property to Continue. The default for ListBox is Contained.

<ListBox KeyboardNavigation.DirectionalNavigation="Continue"/>

Answer 2

I have different situations in my application. For all controls I have my styles, but in style for the tabcontrol I set property KeyboardNavigation.DirectionalNavigation="Continue". 1. Here should have possibility to be selected listviewitems and tabitems. And when focus on tabitem and I press (->) tabitem changes. 2. Here should have possibility to be selected listboxitems and buttons. 3. Here should have possibility to be selected TabItem and TextBlocks. And I can use just arrows not tab. 1:

<TabControl  Name="tabControl1">
        <TabItem Header="PORT" Name="PORT">             
                <ListView  x:Name="ATList"                              
                          ItemsSource="{Binding Path=., NotifyOnTargetUpdated=true}"  
                          KeyboardNavigation.DirectionalNavigation="Continue"
                          KeyUp="ATList_KeyUp"  TargetUpdated="ATList_TargetUpdated">                        
                    <ListView.View>
                        <GridView >
                            <GridViewColumn> ........
                            </GridViewColumn>
                        </GridView>
                    </ListView.View>
                </ListView>               
        </TabItem>
        .......
</TabControl>    

2.

<Grid> 
    <ListBox ItemsSource="{Binding    NotifyOnSourceUpdated=True,  NotifyOnTargetUpdated=True}"
             KeyboardNavigation.DirectionalNavigation="Continue"
             ClipToBounds="true" TargetUpdated="List_TargetUpdated" SourceUpdated="List_SourceUpdated">          
    </ListBox>
    <WrapPanel>  
        <Label  .../>
        <Label  .../>              
        <Button x:Name="NewBtn"                     
                IsEnabled="{Binding ElementName=UsedMemory, Path = Content, Converter={StaticResource RouteNewConverter}}" 
                Click="NewRouteBtn_Click"> New </Button>            
        <Button x:Name="DeleteBtn"  Click="DeleteBtn_Click"> Delete </Button>
    </WrapPanel>
</Grid>

3.

 <TabControl Margin="2,5,2,1" Name="tabControl1" >
        <TabItem Header="AV" Name="AV">
            <Grid>
                <StackPanel x:Name="inf">
                            <TextBlock />
                                    ...
                            <TextBlock />                                            
                </StackPanel> 
            </Grid>
        </TabItem>
</TabControl>