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If the user uses the tab key to leave the field you perform some calculations. What if they just click somewhere else?


I have a button that does the said calculation. The goal is to perform the same calculation when you press Tab as well.


For the behaviour you're describing, LostFocus or ...

There is no way of stopping the Tab key working the way Tab is intended to work, other than by manipulating the TabStop and TabPosition properties of other components.

This is what I've done on a similar component containing an input field: The component waits for the Tab key on the field's ...

So why can't you just set the correct Tab Order?


It will be used in a generic, ancestor-type component and the target object (i.e., the "next" component after hitting Tab) could be anything that can receive focus.

What you're effectively saying is that two different controls will be able to ...

Hello everyone,

Good day. Newbie here and hoping to get some help. I'm trying to add a feature within a VLF-ONE Reusable Part where a DropDown (PRIM_LIST.DropDown) would be able to signal an event when the Tab key is pressed. The goal is to be able to set the focus on another component (not the ...