I'd like to set a style on all my TextBox controls that does the following when it receives keyboard focus:
1) Change the background color
2) Call .SelectAll() to highlight all text
I have this so far:
<Style TargetType="TextBox">
<Style.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsKeyboardFocusWithin" Value="True">
<Setter Property="Background">
<Setter.Value>
<SolidColorBrush Color="#FFFFD1D9"/>
</Setter.Value>
</Setter>
</Trigger>
</Style.Triggers>
</Style>
Is there a way to also call .SelectAll()
? Thanks.
You can do this using attached behaviours.
Example
public static class TextBoxBehaviour
{
public static bool GetSelectAll(TextBoxBase target)
{
return (bool)target.GetValue(SelectAllAttachedProperty);
}
public static void SetSelectAll(TextBoxBase target, bool value)
{
target.SetValue(SelectAllAttachedProperty, value);
}
public static readonly DependencyProperty SelectAllAttachedProperty = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached("SelectAll", typeof(bool), typeof(TextBoxBehaviour), new UIPropertyMetadata(false, OnSelectAllAttachedPropertyChanged));
static void OnSelectAllAttachedPropertyChanged(DependencyObject o, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
((TextBoxBase)o).SelectAll();
}
}
Usage
<Style TargetType="{x:Type TextBox}" xmlns:behaviours="clr-namespace:Controls.Behaviours">
<Style.Triggers>
<Trigger Property="IsKeyboardFocusWithin" Value="True">
<Setter Property="Background" Value="#FFFFD1D9"/>
<Setter Property="behaviours:TextBoxBehaviour.SelectAll" Value="True"/>
</Trigger>
</Style.Triggers>
</Style>
References
- Josh Smith on Attached Behaviours
NB: Wasn't able to test the above implementation, in theory though it should just work™.
HTH,