Reputation: 743
How do I detect a CtrlTab keypress?
Reason for asking: I want to stop a user from changing tabs in a tab control.
Upvotes: 1
Views: 552
Reputation: 942518
Filtering key messages isn't very productive. You would also have to filter ShiftCtrlTab, CtrlPageDn and CtrlPageUp. Just prevent tab changes by implementing the Selecting event. Like this:
Public Class Form1
Private allowTabChanges As Boolean
Private Sub TabControl1_Selecting(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.TabControlCancelEventArgs) Handles TabControl1.Selecting
If Not allowTabChanges then e.Cancel = True
End Sub
End Class
Set allowTabChanges to true and back to false in any of your own code that wants to change the active tab page. The key filtering method is described in this answer.
Upvotes: 3