Select Tab

Hi,

I'm trying to make a tab page change on SelectedIndexChanged event of a combo box.
I have used select case statements to try and do it, but can't get the tab to change.

I have tried tabpage.select , tabpage.focus , and few others, but none of them seem to work.

I don't get why not, though the select one would work, so what am I doing wrong?

Thanks

You change it through the tabcontrol itself, not the tabpage.

So it would be something like

tabcontrol1.SelectedIndex = combobox1.selectedindex
(if the combobox and tabpages indexes match)

otherwise I am sure from this you can get it working how you need.

The tab control also has a .SelectedTab property you can set, but you would need to set it to a TabPage object, and its probably going to be easier to use indexes here.

Wow, I can't believe how wrong I was on that one! Just tried your code and it works perfect!

Thanks

You can also use TabControl1.TabSelect(PageIndex). I personally like that one better, less code and more concise.

how is it less code? by the amount of characters used???? :confused:

TabControl1.SelectedIndex = PageIndex
TabControl1.TabSelect(PageIndex)

This code was working fine, but then the tabs rearranged themselves and so the wrong page opens with the combobox. Is there anyway to lock the tabs so that they don't move? I have tried the lock property but that doesn't work.

what do you mean rearrange? you mean tab 0 becomes tab 2 or something like that?

Yep.

can you post the code you have in the combobox's selectedindex changed event?

VB Code:

Private Sub cbGPSSentence_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cbGPSSentence.SelectedIndexChanged
        Select Case cbGPSSentence.Text
            Case Is = "$GPGGA"
                tcResponse.SelectedIndex = cbGPSSentence.SelectedIndex
            Case Is = "$GPGLL"
                tcResponse.SelectedIndex = cbGPSSentence.SelectedIndex
            Case Is = "$GPGSA"
                tcResponse.SelectedIndex = cbGPSSentence.SelectedIndex
            Case Is = "$GPGSV"
                tcResponse.SelectedIndex = cbGPSSentence.SelectedIndex
            Case Is = "$GPRMC"
                tcResponse.SelectedIndex = cbGPSSentence.SelectedIndex
        End Select
    End Sub

Have tried a few variations aswell.

I dunno man, here is a little sample I did up. Is this basically what you are trying to do?

That code does exactly the same. The only difference from your code and my code, is the fact that I have named the tabs differently, which I wouldn't think makes any difference.

it doesn't change the order of the tabs though??? unless there is something I am missing here.

Beats me!

well what im saying is, when you select the first item in the combobox, the first tab is selected. You select the second item in the combobox, the second tab becomes selected, etc...

they dont change their order though