Keeping focus off text boxes.

[Joshb]

Hi. I wondering how to accomplish a small task i'm in need for.


What i have is a Form and a text box control that is disabled. I have my code on the form_keypress to send characters to the disabled text box. This part works fine, my problem is i have another text box thats not disabled but locked, so it takes focus. Doing that i can't set the form to focus without disabling the second text box instead of locking it.


basically... how to i keep focus from text boxes without disabling them?

 

[mentalhard]

Me.TextBox2.TabStop = False

or you can do the same through the design view and properties window.
Just set up the property TabStop to false. Voila!

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

If you don't want the user to edit the text in the textbox and you don't want the textbox to be disabled

set the textbox's readonly property to true

 

[Joshb]

The above works but forces the focus to the next text box. Even if they both have a tabstop of true. I'll explain what i'm trying to create here...


I'm wanting to simulate a console. I'm using a RichTextbox control for the console. However you don't type commands directly in the console box, but rather another textbox for entering commands. The reason i don't want focus on the textbox is to get rid of the goody "|" blinking when it has focus. Maybe there's something else i should be doing?

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

Personally, I would set the RichTextbox's ReadOnly property to True (so they can't edit it) and I wouldn't worry about the cursor caret, the caret's used to coping text (which you may want to allow the user to do this)

 

[Joshb]

Looks like thats what i'll have to do. Thanks guys for the help!