[WinRT/UWP] Enable selection in password entry (#677)

* [WinRT/UWP] Enable selection in password entry

* Remove unnecessary if

Xamarin.Forms.Controls.Issues/Xamarin.Forms.Controls.Issues.Shared/Bugzilla45277.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+using Xamarin.Forms.CustomAttributes;
+using Xamarin.Forms.Internals;
+
+#if UITEST
+using Xamarin.UITest;
+using NUnit.Framework;
+#endif
+
+namespace Xamarin.Forms.Controls.Issues
+{
+	[Preserve(AllMembers = true)]
+	[Issue(IssueTracker.Bugzilla, 45277, "[WinRT/UWP] Entry with IsPassword = true does not allow selection of characters", PlatformAffected.WinRT)]
+	public class Bugzilla45277 : TestContentPage
+	{
+		protected override void Init()
+		{
+			var passwordTextLabel = new Label
+			{
+				Text = "[No Password Text Yet]"
+			};
+			var passwordEntry = new Entry
+			{
+				IsPassword = true,
+				Placeholder = "Enter password"
+			};
+			passwordEntry.Completed += (sender, args) => DisplayAlert("Enter pressed", "OK", "Cancel");
+			passwordEntry.TextChanged += (sender, args) =>
+			{
+				passwordTextLabel.Text = passwordEntry.Text;
+			};
+
+			Content = new StackLayout
+			{
+				Children =
+				{
+					new Label
+					{
+						Text = "The below label should allow Paste and Select All commands; however, copying via keyboard should not work."
+					},
+					passwordEntry,
+					new Entry
+					{
+						Placeholder = "Entry for easily testing your paste functionality"
+					},
+					passwordTextLabel
+				}
+			};
+		}
+	}
+}

Xamarin.Forms.Controls.Issues/Xamarin.Forms.Controls.Issues.Shared/Xamarin.Forms.Controls.Issues.Shared.projitems

@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@
     <Compile Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)Bugzilla45027.cs" />
     <Compile Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)Bugzilla45330.cs" />
     <Compile Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)Bugzilla44955.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)Bugzilla45277.cs" />
     <Compile Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)Bugzilla45743.cs" />
     <Compile Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)Bugzilla46458.cs" />
     <Compile Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)Bugzilla46494.cs" />

Xamarin.Forms.Platform.WinRT/FormsTextBox.cs

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 using System;
 using System.Threading;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Windows.System;
 using Windows.UI.Core;
 using Windows.UI.Xaml;
 using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls;
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@ namespace Xamarin.Forms.Platform.WinRT
 		bool _cachedSpellCheckSetting;
 		CancellationTokenSource _cts;
 		bool _internalChangeFlag;
+		int _cachedSelectionLength;
 
 		public FormsTextBox()
 		{
@@ -237,20 +239,62 @@ namespace Xamarin.Forms.Platform.WinRT
 
 		void OnSelectionChanged(object sender, RoutedEventArgs routedEventArgs)
 		{
-			if (!IsPassword)
+			// Cache this value for later use as explained in OnKeyDown below
+			_cachedSelectionLength = SelectionLength;
+		}
+
+		// Because the implementation of a password entry is based around inheriting from TextBox (via FormsTextBox), there
+		// are some inaccuracies in the behavior. OnKeyDown is what needs to be used for a workaround in this case because 
+		// there's no easy way to disable specific keyboard shortcuts in a TextBox, so key presses are being intercepted and 
+		// handled accordingly.
+		protected override void OnKeyDown(KeyRoutedEventArgs e)
 		{
+			if (IsPassword)
+			{
+				// The ctrlDown flag is used to track if the Ctrl key is pressed; if it's actively being used and the most recent
+				// key to trigger OnKeyDown, then treat it as handled.
+				var ctrlDown = Window.Current.CoreWindow.GetKeyState(VirtualKey.Control).HasFlag(CoreVirtualKeyStates.Down);
+
+				// The shift, tab, and directional (Home/End/PgUp/PgDown included) keys can be used to select text and should otherwise
+				// be ignored.
+				if (
+					e.Key == VirtualKey.Shift ||
+					e.Key == VirtualKey.Tab ||
+					e.Key == VirtualKey.Left ||
+					e.Key == VirtualKey.Right ||
+					e.Key == VirtualKey.Up ||
+					e.Key == VirtualKey.Down ||
+					e.Key == VirtualKey.Home ||
+					e.Key == VirtualKey.End ||
+					e.Key == VirtualKey.PageUp ||
+					e.Key == VirtualKey.PageDown)
+				{
+					base.OnKeyDown(e);
+					return;
+				}
+				// For anything else, continue on (calling base.OnKeyDown) and then if Ctrl is still being pressed, do nothing about it.
+				// The tricky part here is that the SelectionLength value needs to be cached because in an example where the user entered
+				// '123' into the field and selects all of it, the moment that any character key is pressed to replace the entire string,
+				// the SelectionLength is equal to zero, which is not what's desired. Entering a key will thus remove the selected number
+				// of characters from the Text value. OnKeyDown is fortunately called before OnSelectionChanged which enables this.
+				else
+				{
+					// If the C or X keys (copy/cut) are pressed while Ctrl is active, ignore handing them at all. Undo and Redo (Z/Y) should 
+					// be ignored as well as this emulates the regular behavior of a PasswordBox.
+					if ((e.Key == VirtualKey.C || e.Key == VirtualKey.X || e.Key == VirtualKey.Z || e.Key == VirtualKey.Y) && ctrlDown)
+					{
+						e.Handled = false;
 						return;
 					}
 
-			// Prevent the user from selecting any text in the password box by forcing all selection
-			// to zero-length at the end of the Text
-			// This simulates the "do not allow clipboard copy" behavior the PasswordBox control has
-			if (SelectionLength > 0 || SelectionStart < Text.Length)
-			{
-				SelectionLength = 0;
-				SelectionStart = Text.Length;
+					base.OnKeyDown(e);
+					if (_cachedSelectionLength > 0 && !ctrlDown)
+						Text = Text.Remove(SelectionStart, _cachedSelectionLength);
 				}
 			}
+			else
+				base.OnKeyDown(e);
+		}
 
 		void OnTextChanged(object sender, Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.TextChangedEventArgs textChangedEventArgs)
 		{