Question

I have to solve how to enter the Menu only by tapping the Alt key in my WPF app. The thing is, that I can get into the menu by pressing Tab. And I don’t want that. I would like to stay only in the “tab”/grid I am in. I have tried solving it by setting Focusable and IsTabStop properties. One way or another, it does not work. I can get into the menu but then I can’t move on the next item or I cannot insert the menu at all.
Any ideas how to solve it? I hope there is simple and elegant solution which I am not seeing.

Answer 1

You could dynamically alter the IsTabStop property. This worked pretty well:

    public MainWindow() {
        InitializeComponent();
        enableMenuTabs(false);
        menu1.PreviewGotKeyboardFocus += delegate { enableMenuTabs(true); };
        menu1.PreviewLostKeyboardFocus += delegate { enableMenuTabs(false); };
    }

    private void enableMenuTabs(bool enable) {
        foreach (Control item in menu1.Items) item.IsTabStop = enable;
    }