WinTabControl - Prevent keyboard navigation

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Trausti Sigurvinsson posted over 16 years ago

Hello,

I have wizard style TabControl where I want to turn off the standard keyboard navigation, that is I don't want the user to change tabs by pressing Ctrl-Tab or Ctrl-Shift-Tab.

How can I best accomplish this?Thank you,Trausti

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Mike Dour posted over 16 years ago in reply to Trausti Sigurvinsson

I apologize Trausti, but I gave you some incorrect information on my original reply. There is a way to disable those keys from navigating the tabs. Place the following code in your Form's constructor after the InitializeComponent call:

for ( int i = this.ultraTabControl1.KeyActionMappings.Count - 1; i >= 0; i-- )
{
KeyActionMappingBase mapping = this.ultraTabControl1.KeyActionMappings[ i ];

if ( mapping.KeyCode == Keys.Tab )
{
  if ( mapping.SpecialKeysRequired == SpecialKeys.ShiftCtrl ||
   mapping.SpecialKeysRequired == SpecialKeys.Ctrl )
  {
   this.ultraTabControl1.KeyActionMappings.Remove( i );
  }
}
}
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Offline Trausti Sigurvinsson posted over 16 years ago in reply to Mike Dour

Mark,Thank you for the reply. I will use your suggestion. I have also submitted a request for this to become an option. It would be great if this were one option on the NavigationStyle property, e.g.:UltraTabControl.NavigationStyle = UltraWinTabControl.NavigationStyle.SuppressThanks again,
Trausti
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Mike Dour posted over 16 years ago

I assume if you want to disable the normal keyboard navigation, you will have buttons to allow this kind of navigation. You can keep a flag in your application named something like allowSelectedTabChanging and initialize it to False. Then handle the SelectedTabChanging event. If the flag is set to False, set e.Cancel on the event args to True. In your 'Next' and 'Previous' navigation buttons, set the flag to True, set the new selected tab and the se tthe flag back to False.
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