Re: Tab Order Add-In?

CDMAPoster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in
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I have a form in A97 that requires many textboxes and comboboxes
(about 300). The customer insists on seeing all the information
on one form so I can't break it up into several forms. Neither
they nor I want to use a tab control. Because of all this, the
Tab Order control is quite inefficient at organizing the tab
order. Even the trick of wiggling the mouse to the right and left
while dragging a control or controls to the top or bottom of the
tab order doesn't speed it up enough. One idea is to write the
names and positions of the controls to a file, put the controls
into a long column, run Auto Order, then read the file to reset
the original positions of the controls. Another idea is to play
with the TabIndex property, perhaps by clicking on the controls in
the desired tab order while running code. Has anyone produced an
Add-In that improves the user experience for developers that need
to change the Tab Order for lots of controls? Does anyone have
other ideas about a good way to do this?

You realize that you can select and move more than one control at a
time in the tab order dialog?

And that you can set the Tab Order property in the property sheet?

And that if you drop the controls on the form in order, they'll end
up with the right tab order?

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