TransferFocusOnTab doesn''t seem to work

[Mr. Sascha Wald]

Hi there,

I have 4 EditControls in a form. Each of it has property TransferFocusOnTab set to true, but whenn hitting the TAB-key, a tab is inserted instead of jumping to the next control.

Syncfusion version 6.3.0.30. Is this a known issue?

Is there a way to get a workaround?

Thank you
sascha

[Nandakumar R]

Hi,

Thanks for bringing this issue to our attention. I have filed a defect report on this and this will be fixed for the Essential Studio 2010 Vol.1. However, you can achieve this overriding the OnKeyDown of EditControl as shown with the code below.

    public class EditControlExt : EditControl
    {
        public EditControlExt()
        { }

        protected override void OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnKeyDown(e);
            if (e.KeyData == Keys.Tab && this.TransferFocusOnTab)
                this.Parent.SelectNextControl(this, true, true, true, true);

            else if (e.KeyData == (Keys.Shift | Keys.Tab))
                this.Parent.SelectNextControl(this, false, true, true, true);
            e.Handled = true;
        }
    }

Regards,
Nanda

[Mr. Sascha Wald]

Hi Nanda,

thank you for the workaround. I implemented a variant of it and it works.

regards
sascha

[Nandakumar R]

Hi,

Thanks for the update. Please post the change you made to your application to this code, so that it will helpful for users verifying this thread.

Regards,
Nanda

[Juliano Tiago Rinaldi]

I tried another solution to the problem. I succeeded.

Private Sub edtControlFormula_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles edtControlFormula.KeyDown
If e.KeyCode = Keys.Tab Then
Me.ParentForm.SelectNextControl(Me, True, True, True, True)
End If
End Sub