how to turn off arrow key tabbing?

hi,
i guess this is a new behaviour of WPF, the user can switch between
controls with the arrow keys, former win apps could only achieve this
via tab (to my knowledge).

how can i turn it off? it's getting in the way of my window_keydown
hotkeys. i want to move selected objects in a viewport with the arrow
keys, not switch focus to different control. to put it another way,
my arrow keys are not working the way i want to because a textbox
automatically captures the arrow keys and locks the cursor inside.

i tried the following properties on the window to no avail:

KeyboardNavigation.ControlTabNavigation="None"
KeyboardNavigation.DirectionalNavigation="None"

any ideas? mucho thanks in advance.
tim

one way i found to work around this was to set e.Handled = true in the
KeyDown event handler. however i would still be interested to know if it is
possible to prevent the arrow keys switching focus between controls.

tim

"Tim_Mackey" <timmer3@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> hi,
> i guess this is a new behaviour of WPF, the user can switch between
> controls with the arrow keys, former win apps could only achieve this
> via tab (to my knowledge).
>
> how can i turn it off? it's getting in the way of my window_keydown
> hotkeys. i want to move selected objects in a viewport with the arrow
> keys, not switch focus to different control. to put it another way,
> my arrow keys are not working the way i want to because a textbox
> automatically captures the arrow keys and locks the cursor inside.
>
> i tried the following properties on the window to no avail:
>
> KeyboardNavigation.ControlTabNavigation="None"
> KeyboardNavigation.DirectionalNavigation="None"
>
> any ideas? mucho thanks in advance.
> tim
>