Tab Stop vs Return Stop

[GaryWilsonCPA]

On most objects placed on a form, there is a property called tab stop. In my case I have textboxes I want to tab through, The tab stop property works fine, but I havent found anything that allows me to use return in the same way as tab stop.

Can you have tab stop and return stop at the same time?

 

[RiverGuy]

What do you mean? Are you saying you want the focus to move to the next control when the user hits the enter key?

 

[GaryWilsonCPA]

Yes. Some users prefer to tabbing through a screen of textboxes, some users prefer entering through a screen of textboxes.

I want the user to be able to do either. Just not sure what the method of coding is.

Thanks

 

[RiverGuy]

There are a variety of ways to do it. There have been numerous topics concerning it in this forum. Although, it seems harder to do a search now. But back with VB 6, a suggestion I saw on Expert's Exchange was to enable then disable the textbox. This seems to port well to .Net. It would go something like this:

Private Sub TextBox1_KeyPress(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyPressEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyPress, TextBox2.KeyPress
        Dim t As TextBox = CType(sender, TextBox)
        Select Case e.KeyChar
            Case ControlChars.CrLf
                e.Handled = True
                t.Enabled = False
                t.Enabled = True
        End Select
    End Sub