how to make the cursor move to the next edit box automatically?

[kaya17]

hi, guys! really thanks a lot for all the help you've been given to me. and i am so grateful to join this forum!

i started learning MFC just a month ago, and i found it so interesting.i think you can tell from my posts that i really encountered a lot difficulites as well. but fortunately i found you guys! really thanks!

well,i am just thinking i've been received so much help from you, and just cannot help expressing my gratitude!

ok, back to my question, i have four edit box, which were seperated by"-"(cos i need the text input to format as "HH-HH-HH-HH" for a field, say field_one).

but because at first i only created one edit box(text_box_1)and a couple of other edit boxes for other fields. then after i added the three more text boxes for that field_one.(say text_box_2, text_box3, text_box4)

i limit the textinput to be 2 characters. and i want it to be like this:
when the 2 characters are keyed by the user to the text_box_1, the cursor will move to the text_box_2. and then so on to text_box_3. and text_box_4.

also, now when the tab key is pressed, the cursor moves to the other field i made before rather than text_box_2. and then after it travels all the boxes, it goes back to text_box_2. if i can make it automatically moved, then the tab key will not be used of cos. but why the order of the tab goes according to the time i built the boxes?

anybody can tell me how to do that?
thanks again!

regards,
kaya

 

[alcyone]

Hi Kaya17,

If you choose Layout->Tab Order, you can change the tabs order by clicking all the fields in the order you want them.

Hope this helps!

Alcyone

 

[kaya17]

thanks! alkyone! i learnt something new again =)

kaya

 

[alcyone]

You're welcome ;-)