TreeListView focus

Hello,

If you mean to the right side of a TreeListViewItem past the columns, unfortunately the TreeListViewItem container stretches the entire width of the control similar to items in a normal WPF ListView.  So the item you click to the right of will end up being selected.

If you mean clicking under the last item in the whitespace of the TreeListView, I don't believe anything happens by default when clicking there.

Perhaps you can tell us how to reproduce this in one of our samples so that we can better understand the scenario.

Some clarifications :

Clicking "under the last item" does nothing, I agree with that.

Steps to reproduce are quite simple :

1. Select an item in the Tree (by clicking or programatically).

2. Give the focus to anything but the Tree.

3. Programatically (because this is the only way), set Tree.SelectedItem = null

4. Give back the focus to the Tree (by clicking under the last item, or by clicking a direct UI visual parent of the Tree).

=> Previously selected item is selected back, despite the current Tree.SelecteItem = null just before the Tree getting back the focus.

PS : I've not installed samples, and cannot do so, because installing it forces me to remove my previous install, and I'm not ready to upgrade yet.

Hi Olivier,

We see that when tabbing back into the control, there is logic in TreeListBoxItem.OnGotFocus that selects the item.  There isn't currently an option to turn that off.  We are going to add a TreeListBox.CanSelectItemOnFocus property in v23.1 that will default to false (minor breaking change) that will make the behavior like other native ListBox/ListView controls.

Great news thanks !

But there is something weird :

Just before you give back the focus to the Tree, there is no item selected or focused, so the focus should be given back to the Tree himself, not to a TreeListBoxItem ?

Hello,

Are you saying you're seeing this behavior now or you'd like to see that behavior?  We try to mimic how ListBox works, and the native WPF ListBox doesn't have a tab stop itself.  If there are no items in it, focus skips over the whole control, which should be how ours works as well.

This is the behavior I'm seeing.

When application starts and nothing is selected in the Tree, if you give the focus to the tree by clicking on it (but not on an item !!), the focus is given to the tree (apparently, maybe to the Scrollviewer inside it ...), but SelectedItem remains null.

From the moment an item is selected in the tree, even after "nullifying" the SelectedItem, each time the tree get the focus back, the last selected item is focus & selected.

I would like this very last behavior to be disabled.

Hello,

Yes the last behavior you described is what we are changing for v23.1 to work like ListBox and how you want by default. We are adding a TreeListBox.CanSelectItemOnFocus property that will default to false (your desired behavior) and can be set to true for anyone who wants current behavior.  Since it's an internal code changed that was required, I don't think there's a way for you to prevent the current behavior until you get the next version.

Thanks a lot for your efforts and quick fix !