Can you add a keyboard handler and 'eat' the keyboard event until you need the tabbing functionality again, where you remove the 'eating' handler?
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:04 AM, reflexactions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I want to block the user from being able to tab into all controls in a > particular container but only temporarily. At some point I would open > the container to be tabbed into again but for a while I want them > unreachable, but visible. > > Seems to me this is something that evey app would need to do at some > point, but I can't figure out how to do it. > > I can cover the container with a click shield to stop the user clicking > on any control, that works fine, but I cant seem to stop them tabbing > in to it. > > The container may contain many nested containers and many, many > controls so trying to iterate over every control and do something is > not really practical in this case. > > Is there someway to get the focus manager to temporarily ignore these > controls when someone hit the tab key? > > tks > > > -- Fotis Chatzinikos, Ph.D. Founder, Phinnovation [EMAIL PROTECTED],
