User pressing TAB or Enter to advance to next field on a form

[eljainc]

Hello,

I have a perplexing situation. I am using Visual Studio 2005 SP1 and
have created a simple form with two or three textboxes on them. They
are not multi-line text boxes. I would like the behavior of them to
advance to the next control when Tab or ENTER is pressed. However I
cannot seem to change the property to do this. Sure I could write a
KeyDown event handler to mimic this, but why invent the wheel? Can
someone shed some insight into this? Is there another property that I
am not seeing? I have tried AcceptsTab and AcceptsReturn, but those do
not seem to have any effect on the tab/enter working.

Thanks
Mike

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

Tab should by by default, take a look at TabIndex property.
For Enter you must use Form.ProcessCmdKey (or KeyDown event)

[eljainc]

On May 12, 1:22 pm, "Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )"
<ignacio.mac...@gmail.com> wrote:

The TabIndex IIRC controls the order of the controls on the form that
the Tab key will
activate.

I trapped the Enter key on the KeyDown event. I'm still stuck though
as I cannot get it
to move to the next field. What am I missing here?

[Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )]

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Hi,

You have two options:
1- Detect which is the control with the next TabIndex and do a
Control.Focus() to it
2- See if you can "change" the key pressed from enter to TAB. You can
set KeyPressEventAgrvs.KeyChar to the correct char