When setting up a Winform with textbox controls, and going to View Tab Order -
how do you indicate when you are done setting tab order and want it to be saved?
Is there any other way to set the Tab Order of the controls on the form?
When you are finished, click the tab order again or press Esc.
You can set the tab order using the Tab Index property either in design mode or at runtime.
To indicate that you are done, hit ESC.
You can change the tab order by setting the TabIndex property on the controls themselves
When you begin setting the tab order you klick the tab order button. When you are done you click it again to disable it.
You can set the tab order number in each controls properties sheet or at runtime via the TabIndex value.
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Is there a property that prevents the DXtabControl from changing the tab items location when a tabItem in selected?
Right now whenever I select a tabItem it is moved to the bottom of the "stack".
I find it confusing.
My tab control has more than one row of tab items.
TX
DXTabControl has a FixedHeaders attribute you can set.
You can give this a try:
<dx:DXTabControl>
<dx:DXTabControl.View>
<dx:TabControlMultiLineView FixedHeaders="True"/>
</dx:DXTabControl.View>
</dx:DXTabControl>
I have one Form with four dockPanels
dock_1
dock_2
dock_3
dock_4
I want to focus on specific dockPanel by changing theirs 'tabIndex'. For dockPanel which should be focused I set tabIndex on 0, rest of dockPanels' indexes I increase.
I need control it inside method to be able trigger changes when I need it. I can set it inside constructor and during form first initialization focus can be set correct but it's not what I need.
The problem is that I can't force realod focus on form so when I change tabIndexes nothing happened.
Do you know how to trigger:
System.Windows.Forms.dll!System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.UpdateFocusedControl()
It should reload focus inside the form but I'm not able to trigger it.
I tried solutions similar to: myForm.Select() but without any results.
Thanks
The TabIndex property is not applicable for dock panels.
Use the DockManager.ActivePanel property to get or set the currently active dock panel:
dockManager1.ActivePanel = dockPanel1;
The active dock panel is the one that has focus or contains a control that has focus.
When the active dock panel is changed the DockManager.ActivePanelChanged event is fired.
In windows form, I have 5-7 combobox on one 3 tab pages of tab control.
This tab control reside in a group box.
There are other two groupboxes containg other text box and listview controls.
Problem is, When defualt load the form control then focus set on combobox and unable to unselect.
Tried by changing property- causevalidation to false but no output.
Please guide.
Add a line on Page Load to set focus on the control you want to focus.
For Ex:
txtName.Focus();
EDIT
Use this
ActiveControl = yourcontrolNameToWhichYouWantToSetFocus;
You can set the TabIndex of the controls, the lowest index will be the first focused. (TabStop should be true)
I you want to set focus to another combobox you should call Select() method.
I want to make active tab text bold , tabs are DevExpress xtraTabs
So, wherever the DevExpress XTraTabs are used, make the text of active tab bold.
Set this property once and not everywhere.How to achieve this?
You can set the tabcontrol's ApperancePage.HeaderActive.Font.Bold property value to true.
What is the most efficient way to set/re-order the TabIndex properties of many form controls in Visual Studio? When I change the layout on a large form, or even on initial design, I often wonder if there's a faster way than clicking each individual control then setting the TabIndex in the properties window.
While in Designer mode, select Tab Order from the View menu then click on each control in the order you want. Then remember to turn off Tab Order when you're finished, otherwise when you select a control to do something else you lose the work you've just done (I wish Tab Order would turn off when you Save..)
Bring up the Form in design mode.
Click the View Menu -> Tab Order
Then a little number will show up on each form representing its tab order. Now click each item in order that you want their tab order set.
To bring up the tab order in VS2012 while in Design View Click on the actual form then goto VIEW / TAB ORDER then this will enable the tab order window.
once you have finished changing the tab order go back to VIEW / TAB ORDER this will deactivate the tab order layout
In case some other will have the same issue(you may also see print screens in link):
First step: as you are in Design View of your form in menu go to View and select Tab Order. Second step: on your controls will appear a number that represents the Tab Order of your control. For re - setting tab order press a click in ascending order the controls that want to succeed, including Labels(even they are not selectable). I hope it is very intuitive this step for you too.
Print screens at: http://how-to-code-net.blogspot.ro/2013/06/how-to-set-tab-order-for-controls-in.html