How to make an invisible textbox not to get focus on tabbing?

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Hi,

In windows application ,
I have a textbox1 which I make it invisible on selecting a radio button and make another textbox2 visible.
when I select the radio button, on tabbing i should get focus to textbox2 but the textbox1 gets focus and on next tab textbox2 gets focus.

How to make the invisible textbox not to get focus on tabbing?

Posted 16-Feb-11 7:30am

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Nish Nishant · Answer 1 · 2011-02-16T08:14:00

Solution 4

Perhaps you are not really hiding the control, and instead you just obscure it from view by showing another control above it? That may explain why it gets focus. If so, the solution is to actually hide it by setting Visible to false.

Posted 16-Feb-11 8:14am

Nish Nishant

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Espen Harlinn 16-Feb-11 15:10pm

Sounds reasonable, disabling it could also help if this is the case - my 5

amcanomer · Answer 2 · 2011-02-16T07:39:00

Solution 1

textBox1.TabStop = false;

you can find it on textbox1's properties window too.

Posted 16-Feb-11 7:39am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 16-Feb-11 13:46pm

Basically correct but redundant for invisible controls, see my answer.
--SA

#realJSOP 16-Feb-11 14:17pm

Not the correct approach.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 3 · 2011-02-16T07:45:00

Solution 2

The Answer by amcanomer is correct. However, if control is not visible, it will not participate in tab navigation (or any other focusing activity) anyway, so you don't have to handle the situation at all.

—SA

Posted 16-Feb-11 7:45am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

#realJSOP · Answer 4 · 2011-02-16T07:45:00

Solution 3

If it's not visible or is not enabled, it won't get the focus when the user tabs around the form.

If yours does, you're doing something very wrong.

Posted 16-Feb-11 7:45am

#realJSOP

dontumindit · Answer 5 · 2011-02-16T09:06:00

Solution 5

That should not happen, but even that is happening, try this too

C#

TextBox1.Enable = false;

Posted 16-Feb-11 9:06am

dontumindit