How do I control the focus order for TextBoxes inside a panel?
I have a Form with many TextBoxes. I need some TextBoxes inside one group, and other text boxes inside another group. By group, I just need a way to make these TextBoxes appear to belong with each other.
I made two Panels and added the TextBoxes to them. Then, I placed a border around these Panels.
However, my problem is that when I press Tab, the focus doesn't go to the next TextBox, but rather it goes in a random order to another TextBox. Sometimes the next TextBox is inside the first Panel, other times it is in the second Panel. How can I control the focus order?
This is an image to illustrate my point:
Answer
Tab order should be set like this. Both top container panel should have TabIndex 0 and 1 respectively and its child control should have TabIndex prefix by their parent control Tab Index. ie. if the Panel1 has TabIndex 0 then its child controls should have TabIndex 0.0,0.1,0.2,0.3...
NOTE: make sure that if the Tab Stop property of any control is set to false then cursor will not move into that control. In that case TabIndex will not work.
