Hi Bob,
In VB "classic" the Tabindex was an "absolute" value and therefore if you
inserted some value in the middle, the others values were reassigned. In
VB.NET the TabIndex of a control is value is relative to its parent, so the
tabindex of a control is really of the form 0.2.1 and you will see
duplicates if the parent controls are different. You can see the absolute
tabindex of each control if you select the form (not a control) and click
the menu View \ Tab Order. That said, a tabindex can be duplicated even
among controls of the same parent, and in this case the Z-Order is taken
into account.
There is a TabIndex Assistant in my add-in (below) that can help you greatly
to view and set the tabindex of each control, even automatically. If you
used MZ-Tools 3.0 for VB6, it is the same tool for VS.NET
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Best regards,
Carlos J. Quintero
MZ-Tools: Productivity add-ins for Visual Studio .NET, VB6, VB5 and VBA
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"Robert Boudra" <rboudra@comcast.net> escribió en el mensaje
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> In vb.net, if I instert a new control onto a form and I want that control
> to occur in the middle of the Tab Order, how can I insert it into the tab
> order and automatically increment the tabindex of all of the other
> controls on the form? In VB1-6, this was done automatically, but in
> vb.net if I insert a new control and give it a tab index of zero, I get
> two controls on the same form with the same tabindex! I then have to
> manually increment all of the tabindex values on the form.
>
> Like hundreds of other things in vb.net, there must be a "new and
> improved" way to do this, but so far I've not found it. Sometimes I get
> the feeling that things were changed, just for the sake of changing them.
>
> Bob
>
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