Control change focus in tool window

Hi Jean,

All our code does when you click on the title bar is call the selected tool window's Focus() method. I'm not sure why focus would cause the sequence of focus changes you described. If anything I would think it would focus the first textbox each time it was clicked.

If you think there is a problem with our code, perhaps you can put together a simple sample project that shows it and email it over to our support address so we can have a look. Thanks.

You can reproduce this with those simple steps

1. Use Visual Studio Professional 2005 (english) UILanguage = 1033
2. Create a C# Windows application
3. Add a dock manager in the mainform (drag and drop from the toolbox)
4. Create a new tool window with the link in the properties windows
5. Change the Text property of the main form for anything - this will generate the line "this.Controls.Add(this.toolWindowContainer1);" in the Form1.Designer.cs
6. Add 2 textbox on the tool windows
7. Run the application
8. click on the first textbox to put the cursor in
9. click on the title bar

Jean
(sorry for my bad english)

Hi Jean,

It seems that calling Focus() on the tool window is moving the focus around in the child controls. We'll change our code to not call Focus() if the tool window already contains focus. That resolves it.

Thank you for your fast answer and great customer service!

Jean
(Sorry for my bad english)