ContentItem.FocusContentOnActivating Property

Gets or sets whether the ContentItem‘s content should be focused on ContentItem activation.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpf.Docking

Assembly: DevExpress.Xpf.Docking.v23.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Wpf.Docking

Declaration

C#

public bool FocusContentOnActivating { get; set; }

VB.NET

Public Property FocusContentOnActivating As Boolean

Property Value

Type	Description
Boolean	true, if the ContentItem‘s content should be focused on ContentItem activation; otherwise, false.

Remarks

By default, when a ContentItem is selected, its content is automatically focused and there is no need for an end-user to manually focus it. To override this default behavior, set the FocusContentOnActivating property to false.

For example, the following code creates a DockLayoutManager with one DocumentGroup that contains two tabbed DocumentPanels. Each panel contains a RichTextBox control. In this example the FocusContentOnActivating property specifies whether a RichTextBox control will be focused upon its parent panel activation.

XAML

<dxdo:DockLayoutManager>
     <dxdo:LayoutGroup>
         <dxdo:DocumentGroup x:Name="documentGroup1" SelectedTabIndex="1">
             <dxdo:DocumentPanel IsActive="True" x:Name="document1" Caption="Document 1" FocusContentOnActivating="False">
                 <RichTextBox>
                     <FlowDocument>
                         <Paragraph>
                             This text box is not focused automatically
                         </Paragraph>
                     </FlowDocument>
                 </RichTextBox>
             </dxdo:DocumentPanel>
             <dxdo:DocumentPanel x:Name="document2" Caption="Document 2" FocusContentOnActivating="True">
                 <RichTextBox>
                     <FlowDocument>
                         <Paragraph>
                             This text box is focused when its parent DocumentPanel is activated
                         </Paragraph>
                     </FlowDocument>
                 </RichTextBox>
             </dxdo:DocumentPanel>
         </dxdo:DocumentGroup>
     </dxdo:LayoutGroup>
 </dxdo:DockLayoutManager>

The animation below illustrates the result.

To activate a ContentItem, use the BaseLayoutItem.IsActive property or the DockLayoutManager.Activate method.