How to set focus to one control when a form pop up?

hello guys, i want to set focus to a textbox when the form pop up so that the user can enter directly instead of first pointing to the textbox then entering..

I tried put textbox1.focus() in the form_load event, but it doesn't work. anybody know how to deal with it?

cheers

Try disabling it and enabling it?

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Originally Posted by sunsunlight

hello guys, i want to set focus to a textbox when the form pop up so that the user can enter directly instead of first pointing to the textbox then entering..

I tried put textbox1.focus() in the form_load event, but it doesn't work. anybody know how to deal with it?

cheers

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Code:

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textbox1.select()

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textbox1.select!
it works!
tks!

If you set the tab order correctly, the first item (0 or 0.0 if using groupboxes) will be the first control to have focus.

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Originally Posted by Ideas Man

If you set the tab order correctly, the first item (0 or 0.0 if using groupboxes) will be the first control to have focus.

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if your control is in a GroupBox, so the Groupbox it must have a tab index smaller than the controls in it ...
;)

what is the difference between

VB Code:

text1.focus

and

VB Code:

text1.select

i have always tried text1.focus , and it didn't work for the first time with the form.

strange, any1 got explanation ??

thx

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Originally Posted by Zakary

if your control is in a GroupBox, so the Groupbox it must have a tab index smaller than the controls in it ...
;)

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I didn't quite understand that sorry.

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I didn't quite understand that sorry.

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well that means if you have a textbox in a groupbox inside your form.

you cannot set the tabindex of your textbox to 0 , why ?? because it is contained in a group box that must has a smaller tabindex than the tabindex of it's contained controls.

:thumb:

With textbox, you can use SelectAll() method to select all text in that textbox.

Code:

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with txt1
.focus()
.selectall()
end with

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Originally Posted by maged

well that means if you have a textbox in a groupbox inside your form.

you cannot set the tabindex of your textbox to 0 , why ?? because it is contained in a group box that must has a smaller tabindex than the tabindex of it's contained controls.

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No, that's not true at all. When you create groupboxes it groups all the controls together, along with their tab orders. You then must specify a "tab order" for the groupboxes, and then the controls inside it.

The tab order for the groupboxes specifies in what order the groups of controls are selected, and once a groupbox has "focus", it then works in it's internal list of controls and works on the internal tab order of the controls.
This is why when you have groupboxes, you get a tab order of x.y for controls in a groupbox and x for a groupbox. It's also the reason why it can differentiate between two controls in different groupboxes with the same tab order.

Please note: If this doesn't make sense I'm sorry, I understand how it works, just not quite how to put it into words lol.