Form Tab stops

[JLM]

Need some advice on making a field on a form informational only. I don't
want it to have focus; be a tab stop; just taken out of tab order
alltogether. I can set the all the "tab" related values to "No" or "0" but
when I open the form, the fields can have focus. I can lock them, but I
don't want them to have focus.

[Rick Brandt]

"JLM" <jeff.morrell@colostate_dot_edu> wrote in message
news:40******@news.ColoState.EDU...

Need some advice on making a field on a form informational only. I don't
want it to have focus; be a tab stop; just taken out of tab order
alltogether. I can set the all the "tab" related values to "No" or "0" but
when I open the form, the fields can have focus. I can lock them, but I
don't want them to have focus.

Set the Enabled property to No.
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[rkc]

JLM wrote:

Need some advice on making a field on a form informational only. I don't
want it to have focus; be a tab stop; just taken out of tab order
alltogether. I can set the all the "tab" related values to "No" or "0" but
when I open the form, the fields can have focus. I can lock them, but I
don't want them to have focus.

If all else fails set the focus to the next control in the tab order
in the On Focus event.

[Mike Storr]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:51:10 GMT, rkc wrote:

JLM wrote:

Need some advice on making a field on a form informational only. I don't
want it to have focus; be a tab stop; just taken out of tab order
alltogether. I can set the all the "tab" related values to "No" or "0" but
when I open the form, the fields can have focus. I can lock them, but I
don't want them to have focus.

If all else fails set the focus to the next control in the tab order
in the On Focus event.

Ideally thats the only way I can think of. Regardless of whether you set
tabbing properties an editable field can recieve tab focus. An alternative
is to use something that can't, like a label.

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Mike Storr
veraccess.com

[Salad]

JLM wrote:

Need some advice on making a field on a form informational only. I don't
want it to have focus; be a tab stop; just taken out of tab order
alltogether. I can set the all the "tab" related values to "No" or "0" but
when I open the form, the fields can have focus. I can lock them, but I
don't want them to have focus.

Locked = True
Enabled = False

The locked = True makes it look likes its enabled, not grayed out.