Disallow focus on form controls

[brianbasquille]

Hello all,

Would like to disallow the ability for controls on my form to get
focus?

Working mainly with a menu system and GDI+ and i would like the user to
use the mouse for most operations. But focus still remains on my first
object (a drop-down box) when i load the form.

Pretty simple request i'd assume.

Thanks in advance,

Brian

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Have you tried simply responding to the Leave event of the dropdown and
refocusing that control?

This works fine except that if you use TextBox or other controls that
require key input they never get the focus.

private void comboBox1_Leave(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

this.comboBox1.Focus();

}
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Hello all,

Would like to disallow the ability for controls on my form to get
focus?

Working mainly with a menu system and GDI+ and i would like the user to
use the mouse for most operations. But focus still remains on my first
object (a drop-down box) when i load the form.

Pretty simple request i'd assume.

Thanks in advance,

Brian