Tabbed control jumping up and down like a scared rabbit

[Andren]

Hello !

I put a tabbed control on a form and made four pages on it
with four to five combo-boxes on each.

In design mode it "stays put" when walking through the pages.
In form view (viewing mode) it jumps up and down in the most irritating manner - depending on what page I press.

It does not look to god.

How can I cure this ?

I really do appreciate all comments on this - probably trivial queustion that I can't solve on my own.

and ... Mery Christmas to you too....

/ Anders

 

[Fuga]

Hej!

Menar du att själva tabkontrollen flyttar sig eller menar du att focus på hela formuläret ändras?

>>Do you mean the tab control itself or that the focus changes on the form?<<

Fuga.

 

[ColinEssex]

Hi

Your reference to "jumps up and down" may need some further clarification!!!

What exactly happens? is it the comboBoxes or the pages? where do they "jump" to?


Col

 

[Andren]

Tabbed rabbit

Hi FUGA and Col !

Thanks for answering.

Fuga asked if the tabbed control moved or the entire focus changed and Col asked me to be more precise.

So pressing one tab (page) makes the control "go down" half way so you only can see half of it. Pressing the next tab makes it pop up half way again and so forth....

So it moves up and down so that the focus changes.

I tried to submit the application but unfortunatly it was to big (143 K)

Best regards: Anders

 

[Zorro]

tab control

Check the tabs themselves and look at the tab order for the feilds on your form. When you move from tab to tab the focus goes to the first control listed in the tab order, if its on the bottom of the page the form scrolls down to that spot.

 

[Andren]

Yeap !
You are right - an I checked that - redusing the jumping behavior a bit, but not completly.
Maybee there is also something wrong with the tab-order between combo-boxes in the Tabbed Control itself. I have to check that efter holidays.

For others to learn something from:

I had one page with controls like this:

---------------------------------------------------
control control control control
control control control control
control control control control
__ __ __ __
/__/__/__/__/____________
! !
! Control Control !
! Control Control ! <--- Tabbed Control
!______________________!

control control control control
control control control control
control control control control

------------------------------------------------------

So when I did not put the controls outside
the Tabbed Control in proper tab-order
the tabbed control jumped up and down
as "a scared rabbit".

All the best: Anders