Focus on EditorSeachView

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Posted 12 years ago by John Dunn
Version: 11.1.0544
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There were a few old questions about this but nothing looked like a definitive answer. I have a EditorSearchView in a DockPanel. When a command is executed I show/hide the search view. When it is shown I'd like to throw focus to the 'Find what' text box. Calling .Focus() doesn't seem to work. Here's an example program.

 

using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Input;

namespace ActiproTest
{
  public partial class MainWindow : Window
  {
    public static RoutedUICommand FindCommand = new RoutedUICommand(
      "Find",
      "Find",
      typeof(MainWindow),
      new InputGestureCollection(new KeyGesture[] { new KeyGesture(Key.F, ModifierKeys.Control, "F") }));

    public MainWindow()
    {
      InitializeComponent();
    }
    private void OnFind(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
      if (search.IsVisible)
      {
        search.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed;
      }
      else
      {
        search.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
        search.Focus();
      }
      e.Handled = true;
    }
  }
}

 

<Window 
  x:Class="ActiproTest.MainWindow"
  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
  xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
  xmlns:acti="http://schemas.actiprosoftware.com/winfx/xaml/syntaxeditor"
  xmlns:local="clr-namespace:ActiproTest"
  Title="MainWindow" Height="350" Width="525">
  <Window.CommandBindings>
    <CommandBinding Command="local:MainWindow.FindCommand" Executed="OnFind"/>
  </Window.CommandBindings>
  <DockPanel LastChildFill="True">
    <Button 
      Command="local:MainWindow.FindCommand"
      Width="16" 
      DockPanel.Dock="Right"></Button>
    <acti:EditorSearchView 
      x:Name="search"
      DockPanel.Dock="Right"/>
    <acti:SyntaxEditor/>
  </DockPanel>
</Window>

Comments (4)

Answer - Posted 12 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi John,

More recent versions have an EditorSearchView.FocusFindWhatTextBox method you can call.


Actipro Software Support

Posted 11 years ago by John Dunn
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Sorry to ressurect an old thread but if I call FocusFindWhatTextBox in my RoutedUICommand handler the focus doesn't work correctly the first time. 

 

    private void OnFind(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
      if (search.IsVisible)
      {
        search.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Collapsed;
      }
      else
      {
        search.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
        search.FocusFindWhatTextBox();
      }
      e.Handled = true;
    }
Answer - Posted 11 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Hi John,

My guess is that since you are setting it visible, the WPF layout routines haven't run yet and thus the visuals haven't been realized.  You might try calling UpdateLayout() before the focus call, and if that doesn't work, you'd probably have to run the focus call in a Dispatcher.BeginInvoke wrapper and set the dispatcher priority of that call to be after Layout.


Actipro Software Support

Posted 11 years ago by John Dunn
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Thanks, calling UpdateLayout fixed the issue.

The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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