focus

Question

hi,
I am having a user control and windows application form. In user control I have 16 buttons. and In form, I am having one textbox and this user control. I want to give focus to all these buttons in the form at runtime so that if I press on these buttons , the button text should enter in the textbox. how I need to do this.
Thanx in advance.

srinath · Answer

Thankyou for replying. Actually, I created a user control which consists of panel and inside a panel I have buttons. I gave added this user control as a reference to windows application. In form I added this usercontrol and one textbox of form. I gave button press event in user control and appropriate function of diplaying the text in textbox in form. My problem is at runtime, When I press a button on the keyboard, the action is not entering to the usercontrol code and when I click using mouse on the button i.e by giving the focus to the button only the execution is entering into the usercontrol code. Please, give me the solution..

Ben · Answer

I don't understand what you mean by "giving the focus to all the buttons". If i understand what you're trying to do, you should simply handle the click event of the buttons. Create a public method in your form with a string as parameters. And call that method in the click event handler. FORM --- public void ChangeTextboxText(String str) { this.textbox.Text = str; } USERCONTROL --- foreach (Control ctrl in this.Controls) { if (ctrl.getType() == new Button().getType()) { ((Button)ctrl).Click += +=new EventHandler(button_Click); } } void button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { ((Form)this.Parent).ChangeTextboxText(((Button)sender).Text); }