Class FocusManager

Definition

Namespace:
Tizen.NUI
Assembly:
Tizen.NUI.dll
API Level:
3

Provides the functionality of handling keyboard navigation and maintaining the two-dimensional keyboard focus chain.
It provides functionality of setting the focus and moving the focus in four directions( i.e., left, right, up, and down).
It also draws a highlight for the focused view and sends an event when the focus is changed.

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public class FocusManager : BaseHandle, INotifyPropertyChanged, IDynamicResourceHandler, IElement, INameScope, IElementController, IDisposable
Inheritance
System.Object
Tizen.NUI.Binding.Element
FocusManager
Implements
System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged
System.IDisposable

Properties

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FocusGroupLoop

Gets or sets the status of whether the focus movement should be looped within the same focus group.
The focus movement is not looped by default.

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public bool FocusGroupLoop { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
Boolean
API Level: 3
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FocusIndicator

Gets or sets the focus indicator view.
This will replace the default focus indicator view in the FocusManager and will be added to the focused view as a highlight.

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public View FocusIndicator { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
View
API Level: 3
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Instance

Gets the singleton of the FocusManager object.

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public static FocusManager Instance { get; }
Property Value
Type Description
FocusManager
API Level: 3

Methods

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ClearFocus()

Clears the focus from the current focused view if any, so that no view is focused in the focus chain.
It will emit the FocusChanged event without the current focused view.

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public void ClearFocus()
API Level: 3
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GetCurrentFocusView()

Gets the current focused view.

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public View GetCurrentFocusView()
Returns
Type Description
View

A handle to the current focused view or an empty handle if no view is focused.

API Level: 3
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GetFocusGroup(View)

Returns the closest ancestor of the given view that is a focus group.

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public View GetFocusGroup(View view)
Parameters
Type Name Description
View view

The view to be checked for its focus group.

Returns
Type Description
View

The focus group the given view belongs to or an empty handle if the given view.

API Level: 3
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IsFocusGroup(View)

Checks whether the view is set as a focus group or not.

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public bool IsFocusGroup(View view)
Parameters
Type Name Description
View view

The view to be checked.

Returns
Type Description
Boolean

Whether the view is set as a focus group.

API Level: 3
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MoveFocus(View.FocusDirection)

Moves the focus to the next focusable view in the focus chain in the given direction (according to the focus traversal order).

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public bool MoveFocus(View.FocusDirection direction)
Parameters
Type Name Description
View.FocusDirection direction

The direction of the focus movement.

Returns
Type Description
Boolean

True if the movement was successful.

API Level: 3
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MoveFocusBackward()

Move the focus to previous focused view.

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public void MoveFocusBackward()
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SetAsFocusGroup(View, Boolean)

Sets whether the view is a focus group that can limit the scope of the focus movement to its child views in the focus chain.
Layout controls set themselves as focus groups by default.

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public void SetAsFocusGroup(View view, bool isFocusGroup)
Parameters
Type Name Description
View view

The view to be set as a focus group.

Boolean isFocusGroup

Whether to set the view as a focus group or not.

API Level: 3
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SetCurrentFocusView(View)

Moves the keyboard focus to the given view.
Only one view can be focused at the same time.
The view must be in the stage already and keyboard focusable.

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public bool SetCurrentFocusView(View view)
Parameters
Type Name Description
View view

The view to be focused.

Returns
Type Description
Boolean

Whether the focus is successful or not.

API Level: 3
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SetCustomAlgorithm(FocusManager.ICustomFocusAlgorithm)

Provides the implementation of a custom focus algorithm interface to allow the application to define the focus logic.

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public void SetCustomAlgorithm(FocusManager.ICustomFocusAlgorithm arg0)
Parameters
Type Name Description
FocusManager.ICustomFocusAlgorithm arg0

The user's implementation of ICustomFocusAlgorithm.

API Level: 3

Events

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FocusChanged

The FocusChanged will be triggered after the current focused view has been changed.

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public event EventHandler<FocusManager.FocusChangedEventArgs> FocusChanged
Event Type
Type Description
System.EventHandler<FocusManager.FocusChangedEventArgs>
API Level: 3
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FocusChanging

FocusChanging will be triggered before the focus is going to be changed.
The FocusManager makes the best guess for which view to focus towards the given direction, but applications might want to change that.
By connecting with this event, they can check the proposed view to focus and assign a different view if they wish.
This event is only triggered when the navigation key is pressed and FocusManager tries to move the focus automatically.
It won't be emitted for focus movement by calling the SetCurrentFocusView directly.

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public event EventHandler<FocusChangingEventArgs> FocusChanging
Event Type
Type Description
System.EventHandler<FocusChangingEventArgs>
Remarks

By setting FocusChangingEventArgs.Proposed with the view to be focused, the focus will be moved to the assigned view.

API Level: 10
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FocusedViewActivated

The FocusedViewActivated will be triggered when the current focused view has the enter key pressed on it.

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public event EventHandler<FocusManager.FocusedViewActivatedEventArgs> FocusedViewActivated
Event Type
Type Description
System.EventHandler<FocusManager.FocusedViewActivatedEventArgs>
API Level: 3
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FocusGroupChanged

The FocusGroupChanged will be triggered when the focus group has been changed.
If the current focus group has a parent layout control, the FocusManager will make the best guess for the next focus group to move the focus to in the given direction (forward or backward).
If not, the application has to set the new focus.

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public event EventHandler<FocusManager.FocusGroupChangedEventArgs> FocusGroupChanged
Event Type
Type Description
System.EventHandler<FocusManager.FocusGroupChangedEventArgs>
API Level: 3
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PreFocusChange

PreFocusChange will be triggered before the focus is going to be changed.
The FocusManager makes the best guess for which view to focus towards the given direction, but applications might want to change that.
By connecting with this event, they can check the proposed view to focus and return a different view if they wish.
This event is only triggered when the navigation key is pressed and KeyboardFocusManager tries to move the focus automatically.
It won't be emitted for focus movement by calling the SetCurrentFocusView directly.

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[Obsolete("Please do not use! This will be deprecated in API10. Please use FocusChanging instead!")] public event EventHandlerWithReturnType<object, FocusManager.PreFocusChangeEventArgs, View> PreFocusChange
Event Type
Type Description
EventHandlerWithReturnType<System.Object, FocusManager.PreFocusChangeEventArgs, View>
API Level: 3

Implements

System.ComponentModel.INotifyPropertyChanged
System.IDisposable