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• David

  Posted on Nov 9, 2011 (permalink)

  Ok, so our client wants to type in dates...no mouse at all.
  
  What they would like to do is use tab instead of arrows to move between month/date/year fields. Is this possible?
  
  Thanks,
  David

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• Peter Peter

  Posted on Nov 14, 2011 (permalink)

  Hello David,

  TAB key is a special key in WinForms - it is used for navigation between controls.
  To avoid the default WinForms behavior you, should override Form's ProcessCmdKey event and check if Keys.Tab is pressed. Then, you should select next date/time part in the RadMaskedEditBox/RadDateTimePicker. Please refer to the sample code below:

  MaskDateTimeProvider provider =this.radMaskedEditBox1.MaskedEditBoxElement.Provider as MaskDateTimeProvider;
provider.SelectNextEditableItem();

  
  Take a look at the attached sample project that demonstrates the complete behavior for RadMaskedEditBox and for RadDateTimePicker navigation. 
  
  I hope this helps.
  
  Regards,
  Peter
  the Telerik team

  Q2’11 SP1 of RadControls for WinForms is available for download (see what's new); also available is the Q3'11 Roadmap for Telerik Windows Forms controls.

  Attached files

  • DateTimeTabNavigation.zip

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