I could not reproduce the behavior you described here using those property settings. One possibility is that the control does not have the input focus, in which case it would not display a focus rectangle, which is how the ActiveItem is depicted. I'm not sure how you made the determination that the item "does not get selected", but items actually do not support the selected state, so it is possible that you were expecting a different visual representation for the active state than a focus rectangle. If you could elaborate on exactly what behavior you are observing we can try to help.