Am I missing Something - Tab Stop on Tab Control Form

[melanie]

Maybe some good soul can lead me out of the darkness and back into the light...............

I have a form with 5 tab controls, so far so good, everything works great....
except the tab stops. Trying to set the tab stops starting at page 1, field 1 at tab stop "0" and so forth (tab stop 1, tab stop 2, etc) for consecutive fields is like trying to play pin the donkey in the dark with a high speed rat ...

The tab stop order keeps reshuffling!!! I have attempted to set all controls on the four last tab controls to tab stop "no" so that I can at least try to get page one's tab stop order sorted out - no luck. I no sooner set the first field to tab stop "0" and poof it sets itself to "37" or "13" or "10".

I have also set the tab controls to no tab stop.

I have many fields on these tab controls - please tell me its not possible that this is what is causing the problem?

I look forward to any takers on this.

Kind Regards
Melanie

 

[melanie]

Ok, the gods have smiled upon me and cast the darkness from my eyes.

For the benefit of the poor soul who next has this dilemma of the hopping tab stops in on a tab control:

In design view, right click the page tab, select tab order. Now manually order the controls in the little listbox that pops up. Simple!!

Regards
Melanie

 

[Wiz47]

Ok, the gods have smiled upon me and cast the darkness from my eyes.

For the benefit of the poor soul who next has this dilemma of the hopping tab stops in on a tab control:

In design view, right click the page tab, select tab order. Now manually order the controls in the little listbox that pops up. Simple!!

Regards
Melanie

Precisely, Melanie. I beat my head against the wall on this problem myself. I just checked in or I would have been happy to share that info with you - (and show you the secret handshake that goes with it.)

 

[melanie]

I thought I was probably the only person on planet earth to chase rats in the dark.

Welcome to the club....you and me make two. I cannot tell you how pleased I am to discover that I'm not alone.

I think this forum should have an additional category - The Stupid Category - for those of us who have had encounters with the sixth kind (access mysteries) and have discovered the secret. A safe place where we can anonymously post all those unknowns no manual has ever covered, nor any forum ever had to contend with.

You and I can be master moderators...

What do you think?

 

[Wiz47]

I thought I was probably the only person on planet earth to chase rats in the dark.

Welcome to the club....you and me make two. I cannot tell you how pleased I am to discover that I'm not alone.

I think this forum should have an additional category - The Stupid Category - for those of us who have had encounters with the sixth kind (access mysteries) and have discovered the secret. A safe place where we can anonymously post all those unknowns no manual has ever covered, nor any forum ever had to contend with.

You and I can be master moderators...

What do you think?

Sounds good to me

* and now back to our regularly scheduled programming