Problem in button (.Net 2008, Framework 3.5).

priyamtheone

When a button is focused by pressing Tab key, a rectangle appears on it. Even if the button's TabStop property is set to false, when the button is clicked with mouse the rectangle appears. Is it possible to stop the rectangle from appearing? Please help. Regards.

Dr Walt Fair PE

What exactly are you trying to do? The TabStop property only determines whether the control can be selected using the Tab key. Obviously using the mouse by passes that, so it is behaving as expected. Do you perhaps want to disable the control (Enabled = false;) or hide it (Visible = false;) or just not provide user feedback that it's selected?

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Lost User

Owner-drawing? ..or the ImageButton from the VB PowerPack[^] - it has a ShowFocusRect property :) By hiding the focus, the user won't know what control will be reacting to key-presses. It'd make a very confusing user-experience.

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priyamtheone

By inheriting the standard button class here's another solution I came up to:

class CustomButton : System.Windows.Forms.Button
{
private bool _DisplayFocusCues = true;
protected override bool ShowFocusCues
{
get
{
return _DisplayFocusCues;
}
}

   public bool DisplayFocusCues
   {
       get
       {
           return \_DisplayFocusCues;
       }
       set
       {
           \_DisplayFocusCues = value;
       }
   }

}

Using this class you can set DisplayFocusCues at design time too.

Lost User

Cool, didn't know that one yet. Would be a neat trick[^] to share :)

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Ravi Bhavnani

Nice! /ravi

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RaviRanjanKr

yup! that's one of the perfect way to set DisplayFocus at design time :)