Determining the tab that contains a control

[ejgb]

Using a SSTab control with 4 tabs, each containing a number of additional controls. Is there a way that from the individual controls, I can determine which tab they are sitting on so that I can programmaticly select the correct tab?

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Will the user be selecting the control from say a drop down list and then the tab will be selected dependant on the selection or have I got totally the wrong end of the stick?

Harleyquinn

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[vladk]

ejgb,

Look at thread222-825221. It contains examples of manipulating with tabs and controls involving Container property.

vladk

 

[ejgb]

Harlryquinn,

You are on the right track, the system setup allows the user to dinamically determine which fields require data entry as manditory. Then as part of the update procedure I check to see which fields are manditory, check that the correct data hasa been entered, and if incorrect let the user know.

Finding the controls, and check the data and letting the user know is easy, then what I want is to setfocus to the corresponding control. The problem is that the user could be on any one of the tabs and the checked control might be on another.

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Hmmm,

I sat for a few hours yesterday having a go at this and as you have that it's not the easiest problem to solve :-(

If vladk's suggestion hasn't been quite what you are after the only thing I could come up with (and it's not the prettiest) would be to hardcode the controls in the code and use a case statement. Something like:

Select Case strTextRequired 'this being the name of the control requiring input
Case "Text1","Text2"
      sstab1.tab = 0
      'setfocus to the required control here
Case "Text3","Text4"
      sstab1.tab = 1
etc...

As I said this is not the prettiest way to do it but I had real trouble trying to get it to work with .container yesterday.

Hope this helps

PS. I knocked this up on the fly from memory without VB this morning when you replied so the syntax may not be exact

Harleyquinn

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[vladk]

The other hardcode way would be utilizing Tag property... Just read Tag, and it will tell you what sits where.

vladk