How can I lose focus on a control when I click outside it?

[kirk kirk]

I have a form that contains text boxes and combo boxes. My problem is that when I click on a control, let's say a comboxbox, I can edit inside it but when I click outside, the main form where my controls are contained, my focus is still in the combobox.

[GaryTexmo]

If I'm understanding you correctly, you want your controls to lose focus when you click on the form itself? There might be a better way to do this, but here's what I came up with.

Add a listener to the form's MouseClick event. Inside that method, put the following code...

this.ActiveControl = null;

This should clear the active control for the form and remove focus from your controls.

If that's not what you meant, can you please clarify?

[kirk kirk]

Sorry if I did not clarify things up. Even I find it hard to explain it further. I have this combobox with AutoCompleteMode set to SuggestAppend.

My problem -> I click on the combobox and choose an item. Then I click the form and use my mouse wheel to scroll the whole form but what I'm scrolling here is not the whole form as to what I intend to do but just the items inside the combobox.

The same goes when I click on a textbox inside a tablelayoutpanel which is inside a groupbox.

I assume you had the idea because your code helped me but now every time I click my main form it scrolls back to where I have my focus. I want my form in a way that I have my form scrolled to where I'm at and just have to click the main form whenever I want to scroll up or down.

[GaryTexmo]

And that suggestion didn't work? What I was trying to do was take focus away from the control itself and put it on the form. I didn't know you wanted to scroll the form, but it should have the same result.

No go?