Is there a known TabIndex bug?

[Guest]

I'm preparing a form with some controls laid out at design time and some
controls added dynamically at run time. During the latter I programatically
set the TabIndex of these new controls so that the tab order will flow like I
want.

But my settings seem to have no effect.

Is this a known bug with Windows Forms dotNet?

 

[Dave]

Try setting the TabIndex property after you add the control to its parent's control collection (if you aren't already)

 

[Guest]

Dave,

I got excited when I read your response because I was not doing that. So I
went to the trouble to change the TabIndexes late, after all the controls
were in place. I iterated through the code and the tabindexes are being
assigned as I expected. But it still doesn't work. It's as if the TabIndex
sequence is following some other logic sequence that I'm just not sure of.

Most frustrating!

 

[Bruce Wood]

Are the controls all in the same container (Form / Panel)?

 

[Guest]

Bruce, they're divided into different panels and sub-panels. Does this make
a difference? Coming from the VB6 world, I seem to recall that there was
just one master tabindex for the form.

If this is not the case with dotNet, could you explain to me how TabIndex
works in a multi-panel form or send me a link to read?