Control Focus

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Merlin

Hi,

This is starting to bug me - I have a form with a control, this control has
a field, what I want is when the form loads the field in the control gets
the focus. I've tried setting the focus in the control load event but no
luck, should I place it in another event?

Thanks.

Merlin
 
* "Merlin said:
This is starting to bug me - I have a form with a control, this control has
a field, what I want is when the form loads the field in the control gets
the focus. I've tried setting the focus in the control load event but no
luck, should I place it in another event?
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The focus can only be set if the control is visible. Change the
'TabIndex' properties of the controls. When showing the form, the
control with the lowest 'TabIndex' will have the focus.
 
Hi Merlin,

In a winform this should not be a problem, in a webform it can be a problem,
what are you using? When it is a winform use the solution given by Herfried.

Cor
 
Hi Cor,

I'm using Winfroms. I'd already summised Herfried suggestion and this
doesn't appear to work. May be if I knew the last event that fired on a form
load I could set my focus from there?

Merlin
 
Hi Merlin,

Did you set the tabindex of that control you want to have foucs to zero and
the other to another number as Herfried said?

Cor
 
Ah Ha!

I've solved it - my problem was that I have the field in a control on the
form - I had to set the tabindex of the field and the control to both zero,
I also had the control set as Tabstop=False which also stopped the focus.

Thanks.

Merlin
 
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