Re: Setting focus for TabControl

Set the control's SelectedIndex property.


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"Narasimham" <Narasimham@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a TabControl in my Windows Mobile 5.0 application running .NET CF
> 2.0. I have a requirement that needs to be able to switch between tab
> pages
> using hot keys. Does any one have any idea how this can be achieved.
>
> I have written a simple function to test the functionality of actually
> switching the tabs programatically by calling a function. But it does not
> seem to work.
>
> Sample piece of code is below:
>
> if (String.Compare(e.KeyChar.ToString(), Keys.F.ToString(),
> true) == 0)
> {
> //findTabPage.Show();
> //findTabPage.Focus();
> //findTabPage.Update();
> //((TabFindItemPanel)findTabPage.Controls[0]).Show();
>
> //tabControl.Controls[tabControl.Controls.IndexOf(findTabPage)].Show();
>
> tabControl.TabPages[tabControl.Controls.IndexOf(findTabPage)].Focus();
>
> tabControl.TabPages[tabControl.Controls.IndexOf(findTabPage)].Show();
> }
>
> findTabPage is a TabPage inside tabControl.
>
> The commented lines are things i tried and not working. So I tried various
> different routes.
>
> Thanks,
> Narasimham