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Breaking Change T1232932
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BarEditItems in Ribbon Control Now Retain Focus During Keyboard Navigation

What Changed

Starting with v24.1, when the WinForms BarEditItem has focus and a user presses an arrow key, the BarEditItem retains focus, which allows the user to navigate within the editor:

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In previous versions, arrow keys moved focus away from the BarEditItem.

Reasons for Change

This change allows us to improve keyboard navigation within WinForms Ribbon UI and Toolbars (for Accessibility/A11Y compliance purposes). Keyboard focus is now appropriately managed to mimic behaviors found in Microsoft Word.

Impact on Existing Apps

This change affects your application if it contains a Ribbon UI with BarEditItems and your users use a keyboard to navigate between ribbon items.

How to Revert to Previous Behavior

Set the BarManager.SuppressModifierKey property to None to revert to the previous behavior:

C#
barManager1.SuppressModifierKey = DevExpress.XtraEditors.SuppressKeys.None;

Additionally, each BarEditItem has a SuppressModifierKey property.

See also additional options for v24.1.5+ in
DevExpress.XtraEditors.KeyboardNavigationExtensions.None value's behavior is changed.

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