TabControlExt and child control focus in form load

[Hugues Valois]

I have a form with a TabControlExt on it, with 2 tabs. The first tab has a TextBox on it. In Form.Load I try to set the focus to the TextBox and select its text:
textBox1.SelectAll();
textBox1.Focus();
I know there was a similar problem with the SelectedIndexChanged event that got fixed, but I need to do this in the form Load and it looks like whatever I do in form Load the focus always goes to the tab itself.

thanks,

hugues

[Administrator]

The problem with doing this in Form_Load is quite probably because the Control is not Visible, yet.

You could instead set the TabStop of the tab control to false, then after Form_Load the focus will be set on one of the children in the current tab page (based on TabOrder).

Will that work?

-Praveen

[Hugues Valois]

Thanks for your response.

Your suggestion does work, and I'll use that for now, but I'm concerned that I am preventing the user from using the keyboard to switch to other tabs.

hugues

[Administrator]

Hugues,

Our tab control will still let the user to switch between tabs using Ctrl+Tab, etc. even when the focus is on one of the children within the tab (as long as the SwitchPagesForDialogKeys is set to true). Will that work for you?

Regards,
Praveen Ramesh

[Hugues Valois]

Thanks, I didn't know about Ctrl-Tab, I'm happy with this solution now!