"Kevin" <kevin@nospam.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> I'm trying hard to like Visual Basic 2006. Lots of things it does alot
> easier and better than VB6. But some things it does not. And one thing
> I can't understand their reasoning behind is the Tabindex property.
>
> How can two controls on the same form have the same Tabindex? If I add
> a control in the middle, I have to go through all of them again--it
> won't just bump up the count like VB6 would. In the Beta, you could
> click on View ----> Tab Order and just click through the controls and
> set the tab order. It didn't make it into the final version (if it
> did, I can't find it).
>
> Also, I have about 100 controls on one form (half of them labels) and
> one multi-line textbox has Tabindex of 27, but pressing Tab key, it
> doesn't receive focus until the end. WHY?
>
> Is there a better way to do this or is everyone as frustrated as me?

>Hi Kevin,
>
>While in VB6 tabindex was linear (0, 1, 2,....) in .NET it is hierarchical.
>So, if you have a GroupBox1 with a TabIndex 1 and inside a checkbox with
>TabIndex 0, the tabindex of the checkbox is really 1.0. This new design
>causes, for example, that even if the tabindex is not set correctly for the
>controls of a container, at least the focus won´t go far away once the focus
>goes to one of the controls of the container.
>
>Although the tabindex of a control with 3 containers is really something
>like 1.3.2.2, you can change only the last digit, so the properties window
>only shows that last digit. For that reason you can have two controls with
>(apparently) the same tabindex (they can have actually the same tabindex if
>they have no containers).
>
>The View \ Tab Order menu is still there but for some (wrong) reason MS
>makes it to appear only when a form has the focus in the designer window,
>not when a control inside the form has the focus. You will notice that the
>Tab Order assistant shows the whole tabindex 1.3.2.2 value for each control.
>
>All that said, if you don´t mind using a comercial tool, my MZ-Tools add-in
>below provides two features that can solve your problem in a couple of
>seconds:
>
>- A TabIndex Assistant that show the hierarchy of controls and its full
>tabindex value. It has an "Automatic" button to set the correct tabindex
>with just one click (no need to click on each control to set its tabindex).
>The assistant also shows you the controls with a wrong tabindex. You have a
>screenshot here:
>
>http://www.mztools.com/v5/features.htm#TabIndexAssistant
>
>- The Intelligent Design Mode: when activated, it sets automatically (among
>other things) the Tabindex value for a control when you drop it on a form,
>and it readjust the Tabindex values as you move controls inside a form.