Documentation:WPF menu shortcut keys

When designing actions, you can enter shortcut keys like ctrl-S. These shortcuts are set per action.

See also: Turnkey clients (AngularJS and Blazor) offers standard shortcut-keys

There have been issues with WPF not listening to these shortcuts; it seems that the main cause of the problem was that the WPF app lost all keyboard focus. It is still not fully clear to me how this can be - but it is easy to see when it happens.

The suggested way to deal with the issue is to react to null focus and fix it:

      this.IsKeyboardFocusWithinChanged += (s, e) =>
      {
        if (!this.IsActive)
          return;
        var foc = Keyboard.FocusedElement;
        if (foc == null)
        {
          Trace.WriteLine("IsKeyboardFocusedChanged NOTHING");
          RescueNullFocus();
        }
        else
          Trace.WriteLine("IsKeyboardFocusedChanged " + foc.GetType().Name);

      };

This calls the RescueNullFocus method and you can define it like this:

    private void RescueNullFocus()
    {
      new DisplayQueueThis(() =>
      {
        if (Keyboard.FocusedElement == null && this.IsActive)  // if the keyboard focused is lost - return it to something usefull
        {
          IInputElement x = null;
          if (_wecpof.CurrentWindow() != null)
            x = (_wecpof.CurrentWindow() as FrameworkElement).PredictFocus(FocusNavigationDirection.Right) as IInputElement;
          if (x == null)
            x = (_wecpof).PredictFocus(FocusNavigationDirection.Right) as IInputElement;
          if (x != null) // Got stuck on Menu
          {
            if (!(x is MenuItem))
              Keyboard.Focus(x);
            else
            {
              // find a non menuitem
              var next = x as FrameworkElement;
              var stop = next;
              while (next != stop && next != null && !(next is MenuItem))
                next = next.PredictFocus(FocusNavigationDirection.Right) as FrameworkElement;
              if (next != null)
                Keyboard.Focus(x);
            }

          }

        }
      });
    }

It is also a good idea to call RescueNullFocus at the start of the application.

A change was also introduced to the WPF window to own the InputBindings instead of the WECPOF. This is done with an extra parameter to _wecpof.EasyInit like this:

_wecpof.EasyInit(_ecospace, false, pathToStyles, thestyle, this/*send in window as command target*/, _targetgroup);