topic Tab functionality through controls on an Inventor Add-in winform in Inventor Programming Forum

Tab functionality through controls on an Inventor Add-in winform

Tiffany_Hayden_ — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:13:01 GMT

I have a form that instantiated on a button click on custom ribbon for a custom add-in. I'm noticing some behavior that is odd and after a lot of research I think it's Inventor application causing this behavior.

Controls

3 text boxes, tab index is 1, 2, 3 where tabstop = True for all three. All other label controls have a greater than 3 tab index.

Form

KeyPreview Property = True

What occurs is when a tab happens after the form loads the windows chime sounds like it is not allowed.

Has anyone had this situation where tab was not allowed on a windows form within a custom addin? If so what did you do?

Thanks!

Re: Tab functionality through controls on an Inventor Add-in winform

bradeneuropeArthur — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:06:46 GMT

Do you use show or showdialog?

Re: Tab functionality through controls on an Inventor Add-in winform

Tiffany_Hayden_ — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:15:22 GMT

I'm currently using .show on my form.

Re: Tab functionality through controls on an Inventor Add-in winform

bradeneuropeArthur — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:18:09 GMT

Could you try showdialog, if that makes difference?

Re: Tab functionality through controls on an Inventor Add-in winform

Tiffany_Hayden_ — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:27:55 GMT

I definitely will try that!

Re: Tab functionality through controls on an Inventor Add-in winform

Tiffany_Hayden_ — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:46:58 GMT

@bradeneuropeArthur Changing it from show to showdialog worked! Thanks so much!

Re: Tab functionality through controls on an Inventor Add-in winform

bradeneuropeArthur — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 21:54:20 GMT

Sometimes the solution is closer than is thought.

Let me know if you have any other or programming related issues.

Re: Tab functionality through controls on an Inventor Add-in winform

Tiffany_Hayden_ — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 22:13:32 GMT

Yes I searched high and low! That's why I love the forums. So many people that have so much experience in one place. I'm so glad we have this community. 😊😊