Do NOT hide soft keyboard while tapping controls in WP

2
votes

I have this piece of code for button in my Windows Phone 8.1 Store App project (not the Silverlight):

private void CursorRightButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(QueryTextBox.Text)) return;
        QueryTextBox.Focus(FocusState.Keyboard); //also i tried FocusState.Pointer
        QueryTextBox.Select((TextBox.SelectionStart + 1) % (TextBox.Text.Length + 1), 0);
    }

As you can see, I am tring to move cursor to right in text programmatically and the problem is that it hides soft keyboard and then shows it again after tapping button. I need to have keyboard on while tapping this button.

I tried to tinker with Focus() methods for sender and TextBox objects but I couldn't find any possible solution.

So the question is, how do you force keyboard not to loose focus/not to hide while tapping on controls?

2
c#buttonwindows-phone-8cursorwindows-phone-8.1

2 Answers

5
votes

I found out with Sajeetharans help that I need to set IsTabStop value on controls to false. Then keyboard will stay there. I did it in constructor of my page like this

public MainPage()
{
    InitializeComponent();
    CursorLeftButton.IsTabStop = false;
    CursorRightButton.IsTabStop = false;
}

and my button method

private void CursorRightButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(TextBox.Text)) return;
    TextBox.Select((TextBox.SelectionStart + 1) % (TextBox.Text.Length + 1), 0);
}
1
votes

Add a loaded event to your container say grid,

private void Grid_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    this.IsTabStop = true;
    set focus on the control , say a textblock
    Txtblock1.Focus();
}

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