I’m working on a Windows Phone 7 app and ran into an issue that I just couldn’t figure out.  I was trapping the LostFocus event on a TextBox and finding that by handling the LostFocus event I was losing the case where the user hit the Back Key since that actually triggered the LostFocus event event first.  Peter Torr came to rescue with a code snippet that allowed me to handle that special case.  I’m posting here so others can benefit.

In my case all I needed was the ability to figure out if the reason the control lost focus was the result of a Back Key press.  The code snippet below also provides for other scenarios like the user tapped outside the textbox or on another control.

    private void textbox_LostFocus(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

    {

      object focusedElement = FocusManager.GetFocusedElement();

      if (focusedElement == null)

      {

        whoHasFocus.Text = "User tapped outside of textbox";

      }

      else if (focusedElement == this)

      {

        whoHasFocus.Text = "SIP Dismissed";

      }

      else if (focusedElement is FrameworkElement)

      {

        whoHasFocus.Text = (focusedElement as FrameworkElement).Name + " has focus";

      }

      else

      {

        whoHasFocus.Text = "Magic 8-ball says....";

      }

    }