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In WPF, how do I select the treeview item under my cursor on right-click?

Asked 2009-04-28T13:35:59.350
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In WPF, when I right-click on a treeview item I would like it to be Selected/Activated before showing the context menu.

This sounds pretty simple, but the inclusion of a hierachicalDataTemplate complicates things a little.

I have the following treeview:

<TreeView 
            x:Name="trv"
            ContextMenu="{StaticResource contextMenu}"
            ItemTemplate="{StaticResource treeHierarchicalDataTemplate}"
            ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource meetingItems}}" >

            <TreeView.ItemContainerStyle>
                <Style TargetType="{x:Type TreeViewItem}">
                    <EventSetter Event="TreeViewItem.PreviewMouseRightButtonDown" Handler="trv_PreviewMouseRightButtonDown"/>
                    <Setter Property="IsExpanded" Value="True"></Setter>
                </Style>
            </TreeView.ItemContainerStyle>
        </TreeView>

And here is my event handler...

private void trv_PreviewMouseRightButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
    TreeViewItem item = sender as TreeViewItem;
    if (item != null)
    {
        item.Focus();
        e.Handled = true;
    }

}

Note how I add an EventSetter above. This ALMOST works. But it only selects the root-level treeview node (i.e. the root parent of the node on which I right click). This may be because of my hierarchical data template? This template can contain children OF THE SAME TYPE.

Here is my hierarchical data template...

<HierarchicalDataTemplate x:Key="treeHierarchicalDataTemplate" 
                          ItemsSource="{Binding Path=ChildMeetingItems}">
    <HierarchicalDataTemplate.Triggers>
        <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding Path=Red}" Value="True">
            <Setter TargetName="img" Property="Image.Source" Value="pack://siteoforigin:,,,/images/bookRed.png"></Setter&
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just comment the e.Handler=true from your event handler.

like this:

private void trv_PreviewMouseRightButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
    TreeViewItem item = sender as TreeViewItem;
    if (item != null)
    {
        item.Focus();
       // e.Handled = true;
    }

}
answered 2011-11-15T07:21:13.723

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