Hi,
Apologies if this is an unbelievably obvious question:
I've scoured the forums for the answer to this, but haven't found anything so far that suits my needs.
I have a windows form with a dialog box, in the dialog box I have several text boxes. When the dialog box appears, I want the first text box (top left corner) to appear with the caret already blinking in it. How do I achieve this? I've set the tab index of that control to 0 but still no joy. I understand I have to set he focus of this control? How do I go about doing that?
Many thanks,
RB. |
| RighteousBrother Monday, November 05, 2007 4:48 PM |
See Setting Tab Order is Enough to Set the Caret in your text box there is no need to use Set Focus etc.Just Set the Tab Order of your Dialog Control once again and Your First Tab index should be your that text box in which you want to show the caret.means the tab Index of your text Box will be 1 .note it will not start from 0 i think 0 is used for Dialog and remaining controls start from 1 just try this .hope it will help you.
Thanx
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| Pintu Shukla Thursday, November 08, 2007 5:02 PM |
Hi
Do you have any control's TabIndex same as txtCode's? Generally, we should set all focusable control's TabIndex differently. TabStop property may also affects the tab and focus. If you still have any problems, you could post the InitializeComponent method.
Best Regards,
Wei Zhou
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| Wei Zhou - MSFT Friday, November 09, 2007 2:27 AM |
try textBox.Focus(); to give it input focus
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| H. _冬_ Tony Monday, November 05, 2007 5:20 PM |
Like Tony said, use textBox.Focus(); but use it in the Form_Shown event |
| Fábio Franco Monday, November 05, 2007 5:27 PM |
Hi,
I tried it in a quick test form I knocked up quickly and it worked perfectly, but on the actual form on the project I'm working on, it doesn't work at all - I'll have to investigate further.
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| RighteousBrother Tuesday, November 06, 2007 9:38 AM |
Hi
You could try to set focus in OnShown method. The following code shows how to do this.
Code Block
protected override void OnShown(EventArgs e)
{
base.OnShown(e);
this.textBox3.Focus();
}
Best Regards,
Wei Zhou |
| Wei Zhou - MSFT Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:26 AM |
Hi,
I've tried that but it doesn't work unfortunately, I've included some of the code in truncated form, if anyone has any suggestions txt.Code is the text box I want to have focus:
Code Block
{
public partial class FormPlanHeader : Form
{
private bool m_blnAdd = true;
private int m_intHeaderID = -1;
private PlanHeader m_planHeader;
//adding a new plan header
public FormPlanHeader()
{
InitializeComponent();
m_blnAdd= true;
this.Text = "Add/Edit a new plan";
}
// editing an existing plan header
public FormPlanHeader(int planID)
{
InitializeComponent();
m_blnAdd = false;
m_intHeaderID = planID;
this.Text = "Add/Edit Production plan";
}
private void FormPlan_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
if (m_blnAdd)
{
//adding a new header so just create a blank one
m_planHeader = new PlanHeader();
}
else
{
// editing so show the existing plan header data
m_planHeader = new PlanHeader(m_intHeaderID);
txtCode.Text = m_planHeader.Code;
txtDescription.Text = m_planHeader.Description;
txtNotes.Text = m_planHeader.Notes;
//show the centre code and description
ProductionCentre myCentre = ProductionCentres.GetProductionCentreDetail(m_planHeader.ProductionCentreID);
txtCentreCode.Text = myCentre.Code;
txtCentreDescription.Text = myCentre.Description;
}
Many thanks,
RB. |
| RighteousBrother Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:38 PM |
See Setting Tab Order is Enough to Set the Caret in your text box there is no need to use Set Focus etc.Just Set the Tab Order of your Dialog Control once again and Your First Tab index should be your that text box in which you want to show the caret.means the tab Index of your text Box will be 1 .note it will not start from 0 i think 0 is used for Dialog and remaining controls start from 1 just try this .hope it will help you.
Thanx
|
| Pintu Shukla Thursday, November 08, 2007 5:02 PM |
Hi
Do you have any control's TabIndex same as txtCode's? Generally, we should set all focusable control's TabIndex differently. TabStop property may also affects the tab and focus. If you still have any problems, you could post the InitializeComponent method.
Best Regards,
Wei Zhou
|
| Wei Zhou - MSFT Friday, November 09, 2007 2:27 AM |
Hi,
I got it to work finally, all the controls were set within a panel so I set the tab index to 0, and the next tab index to 1 and so on.
Thanks for all the help!
RB. |
| RighteousBrother Thursday, November 15, 2007 10:51 AM |
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