I have a textbox in a windows form. Currently the focus is on the textbox and i enter some text. Now I click outside the textbox but within the window. This action does not make the text box to lose the focus. The cursor still blinks in the text box. If the click was on another control then the text box would lose the control.
How would I make the text box to lose control when clicked outside of it (not just on another control but anywhere inside the form)?
Thanks in advance.
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Because you click on a control that has no ability of taking the focus (like a form, a label, etc). If you click for instance on another text box the focus should move..
To move the focus programmatically (i.e. in the OnClick event of the Form) use the control.Focus method.
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I have prepared one dropdown user control with a searching feature using textbox, panel, and checked listview.
when I click on down arrow PictureBox or in the displayed textbox, the listview panel will open as dropdown, and based on the mouse click I hiding and showing checked listview panel.
Now, when I put my user control within any panel and an open dropdown that time my user control's listview panel is going backside of the parent control/panel as I shown in the screen.
Please Help me.
I have an "On screen keypad" with some up/down/left/right/select buttons.
The select button is effectively a click and the arrow keys fire the associated up/down/left/right key.
The problem is that when selecting a combo box, I can't press the down/up buttons to navigate the items in the list. It is because the combo box auto closes when loosing focus. I can see similar problems happening with other controls, so I would like to see if there is a way to do the following.
For certain buttons (up/down/etc), when clicked, fire the click event, but don't take focus from w/e currently has the focus. This would allow the combox dropdown to stay open while pressing up/down to navigate through the items.
I have tried to set Focusable=False on the navigation buttons but the focus is still taken away from the combo box and the dropdown closes.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks in advance
This isn't happening because of anything your Buttons are doing so changing their focus state won't make any difference. ComboBoxes close when you click anywhere outside of them, including empty space, non-interactive controls, other windows...
I am using a web browser control in wpf to load a web page. I need to have a wpf button which when clicked will help the user to move next input field, The web page have two text box and two radio buttons as input fields. How can i simulate this when the wpf button is clicked?
To set focus on a WPF textbox you can do as following. (Possible duplicate : source)
To set logical focus to an input control
FocusManager.SetFocusedElement(this, textboxJack); // set logical focus
To set keyboard focus to an input control
Keyboard.Focus(textboxJill); // set keyboard focus
After you click outside the drop down, it seems the focus is still on the drop down; scrolling, you select (without knowing) another value.
I want to lose the focus while clicking on the tab control or any location of the page.
As Otiel commented, click outside ComboBox won't make it lose the focus.
You can handle the Click event for the container (eg. a Panel) of your ComboBox and set the Focus to other control by using Control.Focus Method.
I have a note editor control in my Windows Forms application:
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I want to make this control accessible through the keyboard: I want to be able to TAB to it, TAB through the controls, and TAB out of it.
Normally this is an easy task, however, the issue is the hidden subject textbox. By design, the subject is editable only when the user clicks on the subject label.
When my control receives focus, I want to start editing the subject; make the subject text box visible and focused.
WinForms doesn't like this; my subject text box is hidden, and so WinForms skips over it when tabbing in and out of my control. How can I make this work?
You will have to add code in previous code's lostfocus (or keypress to check for TAB). And, you will have to add code in next control (after the label textbox) to check for Shift+TAB.
You could also add a label before Subject with mnemonic, so user can press ALT+S to reach there.
This is what I could think of right away.
Correct me, if I have not understood your question.
When the user clicks on the subject label, unhide the subject textbox and set the focus to it.
Controls must be visible and enabled to be part of the tab order; you cannot tab into a control that is invisible or disabled.