Set Focus to textbox on tab control

VS 2005

On a form I have a tabcontrol with 5 tabs. Each tab has three textboxes on
it. When I click on each tab, I would like to have the focus set to the
first textbox.

On the tabenter event for each tab, I put a textbox1.focus but the textbox
doesn't contain the cursor.

How can I do this?

re: Set Focus to textbox on tab control

Try putting it in the click event of the tabcontrol. Just verify the
index of the selected tab, then focus on the appropriate textbox.

Tom

Henry Jones wrote:

re: Set Focus to textbox on tab control

I wanted the textbox to have the focus when the tab appears in front. I
have already clicked on the tab label at the top and when I put the focus in
the click event on the tab, your suggestion works, but I might as well have
clicked in the textbox!

I would like to have focus on the textbox when the tab appears. Any
suggestions?

Thanks

H


"tomb" <tomb@technetcenter.comwrote in message
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re: Set Focus to textbox on tab control

On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:07:07 -0700, "Henry Jones" <henry@yada.comwrote:
You would need to get the child index of the first textbox on each page before you
can set it's focus:

With Me.TabControl1.SelectedTab
.Controls(.Controls.GetChildIndex(Me.SomeTextBox)) .Focus()
End With

In the TabControl SelectedIndexChanged event, identify the selected tab and then
setup a Select Case statement for the 5 tabs to specify which patricular textbox
reference goes into the above code.

Gene