Clicking away from a control to lose its focus?

[gdrenfrew]

Hello,

I've got a form, with a customer control on it. The custom control has panels, numeric updowns etc.

When the numeric updown has the focus, I then want to click away from the numericupdown so it loses the focus.

However, I don't know how to make the panel_click event take the focus to the panel, or even to the form.

Can anyone help how to do this please?

Thanks (am a bit rubbish at c# and am bugfixing someone else's app).

 

[JurkMonkey]

panel1_click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.Focus();
this.Select();
}

That will select the form;

 

[gdrenfrew]

Thanks JurkMonkey

And if there were many panels on the form, would each need its own handler - or can I write a handler for "everything except the numericupdown"? Does the numericupdown know there's been a mouseclick that wasn't on it?

Will give the above a go though.
thanks

 

[JurkMonkey]

You can point each panel at the same event handler. The easiest way to do that is to hold down ctrl and click on each panel then go to the lightning bolt icon (in the properties) and double click on the "Click" event. Then put your this.Focus() and this.Select() code in that event handler and you're off like a prom dress.