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Layout - How to switch between the Tab and Enter keys to focus controls on a Windows Form

created 14 years ago
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created 14 years ago (modified 7 years ago)

You can accomplish this task by customizing controls used in XAF views. The following topics describe how to access these controls:

Access Grid Control Properties
Access Editor Settings

In list views, it is possible to enable this functionality by setting the GridView.OptionsNavigation.EnterMoveNextColumn property to true. In WinForms, use the BaseEdit.EnterMoveNextControl property. In addition, note that drop-down editors handle the Enter key press to show their drop-down control. So, it is necessary to customize their behavior individually. Refer to the following tickets for additional information and code examples:
How to make Enter on a (TextBox) Control act as TAB button in detailview
EnterMoveNextControl and DateTimePropertyEditor
Problems with DatePropertyEditor and LookupPropertyEditor when using the EnterMoveNextControl option
How to set focus by the Enter key.
How to move focus to the next control on pressing Enter instead of executing the Logon action

See Also:
Usability.Win - Do not tab stop on disabled/readonly editors and columns
BatchEntry - Support for massive manual data entry (Batch Entry)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5867910/enter-key-as-tab-and-move-focus-to-next-control-in-asp-net
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4683973/move-focus-from-one-control-to-another-control-just-pressing-enter-key-by-jquery
Thanks,
Dennis

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    Mario Blatarić 12 years ago

      Indeed, an option to have both Enter and Tab simultaneously would be nice for me as well.

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      S SQUARE SOLUTIONS 12 years ago

        Indeed, an option to have both Enter and Tab simultaneously would be nice for me also.

        JZ JZ
        James Zhong 12 years ago

          If this requirement will be implemented, it's better to configure shortcuts to focus next editable control using an enum, such as:
          * Tab (only tab will work)
          * Enter (only enter will work)
          * TabAndEnter (both tab and enter will work)
          * NoTabEnter (neither tab nor enter will work)

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