Keep ListViewItem highlighted after loosing focus

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Hi,

wondering how to keep a ListViewItem highlighted after moving focus to another control.

Right now I am changig the appearance of the item by setting a new ControlTemplate when the Item is selected.
Seems to me, there was a property called ListView.HideSelection in the WinForms control. Is there a way to do that in WPF as well???

Can't imagine it is that hard, though I am not getting anywhere with googling :((

Thanks

Posted 23-Jun-10 3:54am

Ruth_S

Updated 5-Jul-19 1:05am

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Vineeth P Joseph · Answer 1 · 2010-06-23T19:35:00

Hi,
I think you are defining new Control template for the ListViewItem.Do one more think and try. Now you are changing the template on the IsSelected trigger right.You have to do the sane think on the following trigger

XML

<MultiTrigger>
                    <MultiTrigger.Conditions>
                        <Condition Property="Selector.IsSelected" Value="True">

                        </Condition>
                        <Condition Property="Selector.IsSelectionActive" Value="False">
                        </Condition>
                    </MultiTrigger.Conditions>
                  -------set the template here too---

User 3730470 · Answer 2 · 2013-02-05T20:56:00

I found another soluthen in the MSDN forum.
The gray brush resource of the ListView is overwritten.

XML

<listview>
  <listview.resources>
    <solidcolorbrush x:key="{x:Static SystemColors.ControlBrushKey}" xmlns:x="#unknown">
        Color="{DynamicResource {x:Static SystemColors.HighlightColorKey}}"/>
  </solidcolorbrush></listview.resources>
</listview>

CAD Guru Yong Kim · Answer 3 · 2017-04-22T19:22:00

Force highlight in LostFocus Event and clear in GotFocus event.
Set HideSelection to True.

Private Sub lvGroup_LostFocus(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles lvGroup.LostFocus
lvGroup.SelectedItems(0).BackColor = SystemColors.Highlight
lvGroup.SelectedItems(0).ForeColor = Color.White
End Sub
Private Sub lvGroup_GotFocus(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles lvGroup.GotFocus
lvGroup.SelectedItems(0).BackColor = Color.White
lvGroup.SelectedItems(0).ForeColor = Color.Black
End Sub

Frank,Lin · Answer 4 · 2019-07-05T01:05:00

Solution 4

C#

MyListBox.Resources[SystemColors.InactiveSelectionHighlightBrushKey] = SystemColors.HighlightBrush;
MyListBox.Resources[SystemColors.InactiveSelectionHighlightTextBrushKey] = SystemColors.HighlightTextBrush;

It works for me!

Posted 5-Jul-19 1:05am

Frank,Lin

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Richard MacCutchan 5-Jul-19 8:00am

The question refers to a ListView, rather than a ListBox. And after 9 years the poster has most likely moved on.

Kats2512 5-Jul-19 10:07am

Just another spammer. Posted the exact same garbage to the link below at solution 2.

https://www.codeproject.com/Questions/752101/Why-is-Setting-InactiveSelectionHighlightBrushKey

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