Thank you, but this is not what I asked.  I need to tab into the grid and have the active cell go into edit mode.  Do you know someone else who might be able to help?

Hello Darryl,

I have been further investigating your issue. What I can suggest is to handle the GotKeyboardFocus event of the XamDataGrid. In the handler of the event, check if the active cell is null. If it is not you can use the following line, in order to place the already active cell in edit mode:   CellValuePresenter.FromCell((sender as XamDataGrid).ActiveCell).Editor.StartEditMode();.

Please  do not hesitate to let me know if you have any further questions on this matter.

The problem with this suggestion, and as was the case yesterday when I experimented with the CVP GotFocus event, is the code breaks the functionality of normal keyboard navigation to other cells once you are in the grid.

Hello Darryl,

Thank you for the feedback. I am glad, that you have found a solution to your issue. Please do not hesitate to let me know if you have any further questions on this matter.

Hi Gergana.  Thanks for checking.  Unfortunately, the solution seems a bit crude, but here's the code I'm using based on some additional help from Rob (sorry I don't have time to format prettier, but at least this doesn't truncate lines).  Basically you can only start edit mode if the grid was previously unfocused, otherwise you break things:

public class XamDataGridTabBehavior : Behavior<XamDataGrid>
{
Window window;
bool gridFocused;

protected override void OnAttached()
{
base.OnAttached();

AssociatedObject.InitializeTemplateAddRecord += XamDataGrid_InitializeTemplateAddRecord;
AssociatedObject.Loaded += AssociatedObject_Loaded;
AssociatedObject.Unloaded += AssociatedObject_Unloaded;
}

void XamDataGrid_InitializeTemplateAddRecord(object sender, InitializeTemplateAddRecordEventArgs e)
{
e.TemplateAddRecord.Cells[1].IsActive = true; // activate first editable cell in add record for tabbing into grid
}

void AssociatedObject_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
window = UIUtils.FindVisualParent<Window>(AssociatedObject);
window.PreviewGotKeyboardFocus += window_PreviewGotKeyboardFocus;
}

void AssociatedObject_Unloaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
window.PreviewGotKeyboardFocus -= window_PreviewGotKeyboardFocus;
}

void window_PreviewGotKeyboardFocus(object sender, KeyboardFocusChangedEventArgs e)
{
if (e.OriginalSource == AssociatedObject && !gridFocused)
{
if (AssociatedObject.ActiveCell != null)
Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(new Action(() => AssociatedObject.ExecuteCommand(DataPresenterCommands.StartEditMode)));
gridFocused = true;
}
else
{
var grid = UIUtils.FindVisualParent<XamDataGrid>(e.OriginalSource as UIElement);
if (grid != AssociatedObject)
gridFocused = false;
}
}
}

Hello Darryl,

I am just checking if you have any further questions on this matter. Please do not hesitate to let me know if you do.

Hello Darryl,

I have been looking into your post. After working on the functionality that you are trying to achieve and doing some research, this functionality has been determined to be a new product idea. You can suggest new Product Ideas for future versions (or vote for existing ones) at http://ideas.infragistics.com.

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