Question

I’m facing a little problem I can’t seem to solve.
The problem is in an WinForm I have several containers (TabControls, Panels, …).

The Tab-order within the controls work fine (of course). But now a customer asked to change the taborder to jump from a textbox in the first container (current tabindex 0,0,1) to a control in another container (current tabindex 0,1,0,1).

My first approach was setting the tabindex of the second to 0,0,1,1 but with no effect. The tab jumps from 0,0,1 to 0,0,2.

I tried a couple of other combinations too but with no result.

Can anybody provide me with hints how I might solve this problem?

PS: the 0,0,0 stands for the containers that contain the control just in case this is not clear

Answer 1

You could work with the Leave event of that Control, and manually set focus in the code behind to do this.

private void textBox1_Leave(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
    textBox2.Focus();
}