How to highlight the check box control on focus?

[Shamjith]

Hi,
     I have set the the tab order for all the rad controls in my winforms. Is there a way to highlight the check box control when the focus is set on it when the user navigates through the form controls by pressing the tab key? Aslo the same issue is there for other controls such as button.

Regards
Shamjith

[Victor]

Hi Shamjith,

In order to get the desired behavior for a control, you should set its AllowShowFocusCues property to true.

If you have additional questions, feel free to contact me.

Regards,
Victor
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[Rohit]

I m using Visual studio 2008....Control doesn't have AllowShowFocusCues  property...what should I do? For radio button tabbing doesn't work...:-(

[Plamen]

Hi Rohit,

Thank you for writing.

As to the problems at hand:

1) The AllowShowFocusCues comes from RadControl (the base type for all controls in our suite) and you should be able to set it to RadCheckBox as demonstrates below:

this.radCheckBox1.AllowShowFocusCues = true;

2) By default the TabStop property of RadRadioButton set to false and to make such receive focus, you need to set it to true.

this.radRadioButton1.TabStop = true;

Please note that the behavior of our RadRadioButton is the same as the standard RadioButton control, when you set the TabStop - the radio button with the lowest TabIndex will get a focus, but you will still not be able to tab through your group of radio buttons . The only way to navigate through the buttons is by using the up and down keyboard navigation keys. Find attached a sample video (2013-02-21_1541), where you can observe this functionality.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Plamen
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