.net - Why does a WPF Popup close when its background area is clicked?

Question

I have a WPF Popup control that contains some editing controls (list boxes, text boxes, check boxes) laid out with quite a bit of whitespace.

Popup.StaysOpen is set to False, which is required. If the user clicks elsewhere in the application, the editing operation should be considered aborted and the popup should close.

Unfortunately the popup also closes whenever the user clicks within the background region of the popup (the space between the edit controls).

I've tried setting the popup to be Focusable. I've also tried setting the popup's child (a Border) to be focusable. No luck on either front.

Furthermore, the mouse event seems to tunnel through the popup. Whatever element is underneath the popup when I click it becomes focused. This is despite both the Popup and the Border (into which I'm clicking) having both IsHitTestVisible and Focusable set to true.

Answer 1

In the end, I found that the following worked. Given...

<Popup x:Name="_popup"
       StaysOpen="False"
       PopupAnimation="Slide"
       AllowsTransparency="True">

...I used this code in the constructor after calling InitializeComponent...

// Ensure that any mouse event that gets through to the
// popup is considered handled, otherwise the popup would close
_popup.MouseDown += (s, e) => e.Handled = true;