Keyboard navigation in Telerik WPF RadCarousel

Question

I'm struggling a bit with keyboard navigation in the Telerik WPF RadCarousel. If i click outside an item, but within the carousel-control, keyboard naviation works as expected (I can switch between items using the left and right keyboard arrows), but if I click an item within the RadCarousel, keyboard navigation is gone. How can I get the RadCarousel to handle keyboard navigation when an item in the carousel has focus?

Additional things I want to accomplish:

1. Automatically show the SelectedItem as the "front-item" in the carousel.
2. Automatically select the "front-item" when navigating through the carousel.

My RadCarousel binding is set up as follows:

    <ScrollViewer CanContentScroll="true">
        <telerik:RadCarousel Name="carousel" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Hidden" 
                             ItemsSource="{Binding Path=Templates}"
                             ItemTemplate="{StaticResource template}"
                             SelectedItem="{Binding Path=SelectedTemplateAndFolder}" />
    </ScrollViewer>

Edit:

By using Snoop, I can see that the "CarouselScrollViewer" has focus when the scrolling is working. Selecting an item causes the RadCarousel to get focus (and the navigation to stop working).

Answer 1

I got the most import things to work, which was the keyboard navigation and moving the selected item to the front of the carousel.

1. Keyboard navigation:

   private void Carousel_PreviewMouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
   {
       CarouselScrollViewer scrollViewer = FindChild<CarouselScrollViewer>(this.carousel, null);
   
   
   scrollViewer.Focus();
   
   
   }
   
   
   public static T FindChild<T>(DependencyObject parent, string childName)
      where T : DependencyObject
   {
       // Confirm parent and childName are valid. 
       if (parent == null) return null;
   
   
   T foundChild = null;
   
   
   int childrenCount = VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(parent);
   for (int i = 0; i &lt; childrenCount; i++)
   {
       var child = VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(parent, i);
       // If the child is not of the request child type child
       T childType = child as T;
       if (childType == null)
       {
           // recursively drill down the tree
           foundChild = FindChild&lt;T&gt;(child, childName);
   
   
           // If the child is found, break so we do not overwrite the found child. 
           if (foundChild != null) break;
       }
       else if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(childName))
       {
           var frameworkElement = child as FrameworkElement;
           // If the child's name is set for search
           if (frameworkElement != null &amp;&amp; frameworkElement.Name == childName)
           {
               // if the child's name is of the request name
               foundChild = (T)child;
               break;
           }
       }
       else
       {
           // child element found.
           foundChild = (T)child;
           break;
       }
   }
   
   
   return foundChild;
   
   
   }
   

2. Moving selected item into center of carousel:

   private void Carousel_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangeEventArgs e)
   {
       this.carousel.BringDataItemIntoView(this.carousel.CurrentItem);
   }