Stupidly dumb question...

[JamesB]

Hello,
Just getting to grips with the .net side of things.
I have a login screen on my app, but I can't get my "login" button to be
default.

In old VB I could set focus to the username box so the user can type
straight in and tab to password then hit enter, but I don't see a "default"
property on command buttons any more, so the user then has to tab to the
button before hitting enter.

Any clues? I'm sure it's simple I just don't see it!
James

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Take a look at the forms acceptbutton property.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...temwindowsformsformclassacceptbuttontopic.asp

Ken

 

[JamesB]

Hi,

Take a look at the forms acceptbutton property.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...temwindowsformsformclassacceptbuttontopic.asp

That looks ideal, thanks.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work! I put this in my form load event:

Me.AcceptButton = cmdLogin

But nothing happens when I hit enter.
The button is located on a tab control but reading that page I dont think it
should cause a problem... I'll have a fiddle.
James.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

That looks ideal, thanks.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work! I put this in my form load event:

Me.AcceptButton = cmdLogin

But nothing happens when I hit enter.
The button is located on a tab control but reading that page I dont think
it should cause a problem... I'll have a fiddle.

I am not sure why this doesn't work, but note that you can assign the button
to the form's 'AcceptButton' property at design time.

 

[JamesB]

I am not sure why this doesn't work, but note that you can assign the
button to the form's 'AcceptButton' property at design time.

I fixed it - I had "causesvalidation" set on my password textbox so the
enter wasn't getting to the button.
Just spotted the property in the designer too thanks - dunno why I missed it
before.

Thanks to both of you.