Control::SelectNextControl Method
Updated: September 2010
Activates the next control.
Assembly: System.Windows.Forms (in System.Windows.Forms.dll)
public: bool SelectNextControl( Control^ ctl, bool forward, bool tabStopOnly, bool nested, bool wrap )
Parameters
- ctl
- Type: System.Windows.Forms::Control
The Control at which to start the search.
- forward
- Type: System::Boolean
true to move forward in the tab order; false to move backward in the tab order.
- tabStopOnly
- Type: System::Boolean
true to ignore the controls with the TabStop property set to false; otherwise, false.
- nested
- Type: System::Boolean
true to include nested (children of child controls) child controls; otherwise, false.
- wrap
- Type: System::Boolean
true to continue searching from the first control in the tab order after the last control has been reached; otherwise, false.
The SelectNextControl method activates the next control in the tab order if the control's Selectable style bit is set to true in ControlStyles, it is contained in another control, and all its parent controls are both visible and enabled.
The Windows Forms controls in the following list are not selectable. Controls derived from controls in the list will also not be selectable.
LinkLabel (when there is no link present in the control)
When you change the focus by using the keyboard (TAB, SHIFT+TAB, and so on), by calling the Select or SelectNextControl methods, or by setting the ContainerControl::ActiveControl property to the current form, focus events occur in the following order:
If the CausesValidation property is set to false, the Validating and Validated events are suppressed.
The following code example shows the SelectNextControl method being used in a form that has some controls. Each time that you click the form, the next control is activated. The ActiveControl property gets the currently active control in the container control.
The following code example shows the SelectNextControl method being used in a form that has a Button and some other controls. When you click the Button, the next control after the Button is activated. Notice that you have to get the parent of the Button control. Since Button is not a container, calling SelectNextControl directly on the Button would not change the activation.
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The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.