Focus by Label and Frames. 1

[CasperTFG]

Hey All I have 2 quick questions, I tried searching but it was giving me errors and I am under the gun... Your help is appretiated.

1) How do I set a Label to be the Quick Key for a text box. I have a Label like &Name, and a text box beside it, I want to press CTRL + N and have it go to the Text Box...

2) I have controls in a frame. If I disable the frame the controls are still enabled? Did I miss something I thought that would disable the controls in the fram too?

Thanks again

Craig

Casper

There is room for all of gods creatures, "Right Beside the Mashed Potatoes".

 

[bjd4jc]

1) Focus for labels are detemined by the tab index of the labe. Whichever control is after the label in teh tab index order recieves the focus.

2) I don't have a problem with controls being disabled that are in a disabled frame. Are you using the standard frame or a windowless one?

 

[bjd4jc]

The hot key for that would be ALT+N not CTRL+N. If you want to use CTRL+N you could either setup a hidden menu item or trap the keydown/up event of the form with the form's keypreview property set to true

 

[CasperTFG]

Yeah sorry slip up on the CTRL & ALT...

Focus, thatsa what I needa... Gotta talk with an itallian accent when the answer is so simple...

Figured out the frames issue... VB Bug. I deleted all the controls and created them in the frame ratther than cutting them from the form and pasting them inside the frame ? Very strange.

Thanks.

Casper

There is room for all of gods creatures, "Right Beside the Mashed Potatoes".

 

[tubbers]

Hi, I'm trying to do the same thing (use Alt+F to get to a text box located within a frame).

Focus for labels are determined by the tab index of the label. Whichever control is after the label in the tab index order receives the focus.

I have a frame called frmFishDetails with the caption &Fish Details, tab index 2.

Within frmFishDetails, I have three bound textboxes:
ctlSpecies (tab index 3)
ctlLength (tab index 4)
ctlWeight (tab index 5)

When I press Alt+F, I wanted the cursor to go to ctlSpecies but right now it doesn't go anywhere.

Have I missed something simple?

 

[bjd4jc]

I have a form with Frame1. Inside Frame1 is TextBox1, TextBox3. On the form is TextBox2

Then I have this code:

Private Sub Form_Load()
    Me.Frame1.Caption = "&Frame1"
    Me.Frame1.TabIndex = 0
    Me.Text1.TabIndex = 2
    Me.Text2.TabIndex = 3
    Me.Text3.TabIndex = 4
    
    Me.Show
    Me.Text3.SetFocus
End Sub

Pressing Alt+F works just fine from all text boxes on the form and always sets focus to Text1

 

[tubbers]

Okay, in trying your example, I get a compile error: "Method or data member not found" and when I go to debug, the "Caption" part is highlighted. I don't think that I am missing any references...

 

[tubbers]

Sorry, that was just me being silly. Used the actual frame instead of the label.

But it didn't work anyway...the cursor still disappears off the form into la-la-land

 

[strongm]

It's weird...2 or 3 years ago, Craig, you were arguing/discussing...stuff... with me, Foada, CajunCenturian, CCLINT...and now...well, it's like you went a bit backwards...

 

[tubbers]

huh?

 

[strongm]

Craig=Casper