newbie question: Tabindex In SStab... Help..

[BUTTMAN]

can anyone suggest or help me how can i group the tabindex accdng to sstab,
egi:
im using a form with 7 sstab: each tab consist of several diffrent controls, now my problem is everytime i press tab it just continue to jump from the next control even to the controls of inactive sstab.. how can i manage it so it can just loop from the active sstab's controls.. (hope this make sense!!!)

[MartinLiss]

First store the TabStop property values of all the controls on the sstab at Form Load. Then when a particular tab gets selected, set the TabStop property of the controls on the other tabs to False and the TabStop property of the controls on the current tab to whatever was stored in the load.

[BUTTMAN]

thankx sir..
but is it possible with just too many diffrent controls on one sstab..? will it make my code larger if i will set their tabstop to false on every event that i click sstab?

[John McKernan]

Two solutions come to mind:

1. Use control arrays (ie: Text1(0), Text1(1)... etc) this would make setting their tab stops a lot shorter:

Dim i as integer
For i = 0 to Text1.Count - 1
    Text1(i).TabStop = False
Next i

2.
a). Place another control (probably a textbox) on each tab. this should be set to a backcolor & forecolor the same as the tab color, no border and as small as possible (use a small font - it won't be seen anway).

b). Carefully set your tab order so that this textbox is the last on each tab

c). In the _GotFocus event for this textbox, you can include the code to redirect the tab as needed. For Example (assuming the added textbox is called txtTabStop):

Private Sub txtTabStop_GotFocus(...)
   Text1.SetFocus
End Sub

[MartinLiss]

Originally posted by BUTTMAN
is it possible with just too many diffrent controls on one sstab..? will it make my code larger if i will set their tabstop to false on every event that i click sstab?

You don't need to worry about it. You could change the TabStop property of hundreds of controls and not notice it happening.