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sinDizzy
sinDizzy

Reputation: 1364

Setting Tab Order Visually in Many Tabs

VB2010: I am very familiar with setting the tab order in my controls on my form using the visual aid under View>Tab Order. I love this visual feature. One thing I am having trouble with and haven't figured out how to do is, say I have a Tab control with 3 tabs. Each tab has numerous controls like textboxes, radio buttons, and buttons. Using the visual tool how do I cycle from Tab1 to Tab2 to Tab3 to set the order of my control tabbing within each tab?

Sorry for the multi-defintion of "tab". Here I am talking about both the Tab control with multiple panels and tab as in the tab key to skip from control to control.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 504

Answers (1)

user2480047
user2480047

Reputation:

I haven't ever used the visual aid you are mentioning but haven't ever had any problem to set up the tab ordering by affecting the TabIndex property of all the controls in a given (control-)container, both via "Design View" and programatically.

In your specific example, you should go Tab by Tab and modify the TabIndex of each control in it: start from the one you want to be first, assign the start index to it, and keep going one by one by increasing the TabIndex value. Bear in mind that there is no absolute start/end; the default behaviour is starting from zero but you can start from any number.

NOTE: I have tested the "Tab Order" functionality now and you can make it work by selecting the given Tab (as you would be doing in my suggestion above): quit "Tab Order mode" (go as usual when you want to deal with the Controls through Design View), select the Tab you want and enable Tab Order; once you are done with the given Tab disable Tab Order (= go back to the normal mode), then select a new Tab, enable Tab Order again, etc. Thus, you have to select the given container (in this case, a Tab) before entering in "Tab Order Mode".

Upvotes: 1

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