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Key Down Trigger Behavior

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Add a new behavior that listens to a key press event on the associated UIElement and triggers the set of actions.

Platform APIs: KeyDownTriggerBehavior

Try it in the sample app

Example

In this example setting up the KeyDownTriggerBehavior to start the animation:

  <TextBox
    PlaceholderText="Set the focus to this TextBox and press enter to trigger the animation"
    Width="500">
        <interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
            <behaviors:KeyDownTriggerBehavior
                Key="Enter">
                <behaviors:StartAnimationAction Animation="{Binding ElementName=MoveAnimation}" />
            </behaviors:KeyDownTriggerBehavior>
        </interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
    </TextBox>

Sample Project

Key Down Trigger behavior sample page Source. You can see this in action in Windows Community Toolkit Sample App.

Source Code