Eliminate highlighted button outline

[Hal Meyer]

I know this is REALLY picky, but how would one go about preventing that
hideous outline from showing up around a button when it receives focus in VS
2003? I'm known for my eyecandy UI's but this is something that has plagued
me for awhile. Many thanks in advance.

 

[ClayB]

You could try handling the button's GotFocus event and explicitly
setting the focus somewhere else, maybe to the next control in the tab
order, or to a hidden button (one under another control, not one whose
Visible is false).

void button1_GotFocus(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.SelectNextControl(this.button1, true, true, false, true);
// or
// this.hiddenButton.Focus();
}

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Clay Burch
Syncfusion, Inc.

 

[Hal Meyer]

Thanks. Actually, I went all-out and created a PrettyButton class derived
from a PictureBox control, with three child PictureBoxes(Left button cap,
Middle stretchy segment, Right button cap) and a label control. It does all
kinds of light-up pretties. But thanks for your suggestion, it probably
would have been a good deal simpler to implement. =/