Fail to get the focus back from NumericUpDown control

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Hello experts,

I posted a disturbing question in here:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp&mid=dedc665f-91c0-4fa4-a103-a98a6808759c

But no one have answered it.
Is not clear? or maybe it a Framework bug?
Please help.


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Thanks
Sharon

[Family Tree Mike]

Re: Fail to get the focus back from NumericUpDown control

I don't recall seeing this when originally posted.

Now that I look at it, I don't really understand how to help. You have
shown no code. The original post describes a strange desire, that I cannot
comprehend clearly. You have a numeric-up/down on a control B, and after
the user unclicks the up/down, you want some foreign control A to take
focus. This seems distracting to the user, if I follow the goal.

If I understand your goal, then it seems Control B could raise a custom
event that Control A would subscribe, when the numeric control was released.
Control A would focus within it when the event occurs.

"Sharon" <SharonG@newsgr oups.nospamwrot e in message
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Hello experts,
>
I posted a disturbing question in here:

http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp&mid=dedc665f-91c0-4fa4-a103-a98a6808759c

>
But no one have answered it.
Is not clear? or maybe it a Framework bug?
Please help.
>
>
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Thanks
Sharon

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Re: Fail to get the focus back from NumericUpDown control

I don't think I'm doing anything strange. I'll try to be more clear.

I' writing a UserControl derived class A.
A contains another UserControl derived class B.
B contains 2 Label controls and 2 NumericUpDown controls.

What supposed to happen:
The user click on one of the NumericUpDown arrows to set it's value.
Then the user click on the parent class A area (large area that draw
something).
A should get the focus.

What actually happens:
After the user click on A area, the focus remains at the NumericUpDown.


I tried handling the MouseUp event of A to take the focus by Focus() (or by
Select()) but the focus stays at the NumericUpDown.
I used the CanFocus at A MouseUp event handler and it returns true, still;
the following Focus() and Select() fails.

Note: After the application starts, the focus is set correctly at the parent
A control,
but I can get the focus back after the NumericUpDown has taken it.


How can I take the focus back to control A when the user wishes to by
clicking on the A area?

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Thanks
Sharon