Move focus in response to keyboard events in XAML

Question

I\'ve got a WPF view with two textboxes. I\'d like to automatically move focus forward from the first textbox to the second when the user hits the down arrow on the keyboar

Answer 1

I hope someone comes up with something more elegant that this, but this is what I have so far. It is not 100% XAML, but it is at least generic.

This example shows a window with two buttons and two text boxes. The down arrow cycles the focus between them.

I hope this helps.

<Window x:Class="WPF_Playground.Window1"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Title="Window1" Height="300" Width="300"
    >
    <Window.CommandBindings>
        <CommandBinding Command="ComponentCommands.MoveFocusDown" Executed="CommandBinding_Executed"/>
    </Window.CommandBindings>
    <StackPanel KeyboardNavigation.DirectionalNavigation="Cycle">
        <Button>Tester</Button>
        <Button>Tester2</Button>
        <TextBox Text="Test">
            <TextBox.InputBindings>
                <KeyBinding Command="ComponentCommands.MoveFocusDown" Gesture="DOWN" />
            </TextBox.InputBindings>
        </TextBox>
        <TextBox Text="Test2">
            <TextBox.InputBindings>
                <KeyBinding Command="ComponentCommands.MoveFocusDown" Gesture="DOWN" />
            </TextBox.InputBindings>
        </TextBox>
    </StackPanel>
</Window>

The event handler (no error handling at all):

private void CommandBinding_Executed(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e)
{
    UIElement senderElement = sender as UIElement;
    UIElement focusedElement = FocusManager.GetFocusedElement(senderElement) as UIElement;
    bool result = focusedElement.MoveFocus(new TraversalRequest(FocusNavigationDirection.Next));
    Debug.WriteLine(result);
}