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Dennis
Dennis

Reputation: 51

How can you cause a combobox to loose focus?

I am developing a windows forms project in vb.net. I have added a comboBox to my form. the form automatically focuses on the comboBox. Nothing I click on causes the comboBox to loose focus. I do not want the form to focus on the comboBox because I do not want users to change the selected text in the comboBox by accidentally moving the scroll wheel.

I have tried: 

comboBox1.CanFocus = False 
comboBox1.Focus = false

These properties are not write-able.

InvokeLostFocus(ComboBox1, New EventArgs)

This does not throw a compiler error but it does not seem to do anything either (focus stays).

I am really stuck and can not find anything on SE or google. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4894

Answers (2)

Abe
Abe

Reputation: 1

Use this in a Private Sub ComboBox1_Change() event. This just selects the active cell, which would be whatever cell you placed your ComboBox in.

Private Sub TempCombo_Change()
    If TempCombo.ListIndex > -1 Then
        'MsgBox ("Done") ' Item is selected
        ActiveCell.Select
    End If
End Sub

Upvotes: 0

SysDragon
SysDragon

Reputation: 9888

You need to focus another control. Note that the form itself cannot be focused.

Something like:

label1.Focus()

If this doesn't work for you, you can try this:

Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)  
    Me.ActiveControl = label1;       
End Sub

You can even try to disable and enable the ComboBox.

Upvotes: 4

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