I have a subclass of groupbox I want to use for my grids. For reasons shown in another thread, if my grid, in a groupbox, is on a tabpage, as I leave the groupbox it is getting a little stupid about setting focus to the next control in the taborder (using a tabordercontroller) Right now I am manually setting focus to a control, by name. I have made this generic
Imports System.Windows.Forms
Public Class GridGroupbox
Inherits MicroFour.StrataFrame.UI.Windows.Forms.GroupBox
Private _NextControl As String
Public Property NextControl() As String
Get
Return _NextControl
End Get
Set(ByVal value As String)
_NextControl = value
End Set
End Property
Private Sub MyGroupbox_Enter(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Enter
Me.Controls(0).Focus()
End Sub
Private Sub GridGroupbox_Leave(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Leave
If Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(Me.NextControl()) Then
Dim myform As Form = Me.FindForm()
Dim nc() As Control
nc = myform.Controls.Find(Me.NextControl, True)
nc(0).Focus()
End If
End Sub
End Class
First, is there a better way to get an object reference to a control when I have a string that represents the name of that control ?
Second, is a there a generic way I can say "If the this control has a taborder property for a TOcontroller, set focus to the control which has a taborder property = me.taborder + 1
I assume I can start with the form, find the TabOrderController and then find the control reference in its collection to the next control ? Or is there something better ?
This is fun
