Tabs and Setting the Focus

[SDragon9]

Hi, here is the background of my problem:
I have a series of tabs on my main form, and when the form is loaded I want to be able to set the focus on the first tab and gray out the others.

My problem is that I am able to disable the other tabs, but for some reason, whenever the form loads, it sets the focus on one of the disabled tabs instead of the one enabled tab. I was wondering if anyone knows why this happens and how I could fix it. Thanks

[mikef]

Check your Tab Index field for the object and make sure they go in order 1 2 3 4 5 6 for each tab. Then use the Setfocus command and specify the tab you want.

[Psyrus]

Or your could put

SSTab1.Tab = 0

in the form load, where 'SSTab1' is the name of your tab control.

[MartinLiss]

The reason you are seeing this behavior is that for whatever reason, VB sets the default-display tab at run time to the one that last had the focus during design time.

[SDragon9]

Ok, thanks, I'll try it out and tell you all what worked.