Tab order is disabled in the Layout Tool bar

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Please tell me how can i enable the Tab order menu button?

i have created a dialog box with a set of controls using Visual studio 2008

Thanks in advance

Posted 3-Aug-11 0:59am

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Confused me too - ignore the words "Tab Order" and look on the "Layout" toolbar - by default (I think) it is at the right hand end, and looks like three little controls, and two curvy arrows. That one should work! Or try the menu Bar: "View...Tab Order" instead.

Posted 3-Aug-11 1:02am

OriginalGriff

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Member 8112150 3-Aug-11 7:09am

yes. i found that.. but it seems to be permanently disabled. :(

OriginalGriff 3-Aug-11 7:14am

Odd - the only way I know of to disable it is to not have any controls on your form - but then it wouldn't matter, because there is nothing to order. You do have controls on your form, and are in design mode aren't you? :laugh:

Member 8112150 3-Aug-11 7:30am

there are controls in the dialog box but what is design mode???
sorry im really new to visual studio :(

i can only see debug and release mode for my application :(

OriginalGriff 3-Aug-11 8:27am

If you can see controls and forms, that's design mode.
If you can see lines of C# or VB code, that's not!
A thought - this isn't a web site is it? Because they have no concept of tab order, so it would be permanently greyed out (along with everything else on the layout toolstrip)

Member 8112150 3-Aug-11 23:14pm

okies..
i am creating the UI for a MFC dialog based application.
need to control the order in which the tab changes the focus..
i take the UI and in the Layout bar the Tab order is disabled. :(
Everythin else to resize the buttons are all enabled..

Thanks a lot for your help OriginalGriff

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Member 8112150 · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-03T18:36:00

Solution 2

hey..

i got it..

in the Format menu, there is Tab order option to set the order of the Tab :)

Thanks all :)

Posted 3-Aug-11 18:36pm

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