Greetings. When I'm not studying the book, I've been writing a little Windows word processor application using a Rich Text Box. One quick question. How do I put the blinking cursor at the top left (the 0,0 coordinates) of the rich text box so that the user can begin typing immediately (after the application loads and the form displays) instead of having to move the mouse over to that position and clicking? Just giving the rich text box 'focus" doesn't do the trick, and I've tried a few other commands that didn't work either. It's a minor thing, but it bugs me that I can't get this to work. THANKS!

Bob

Not sure what the problem is. I put a button on a form with a rich text box and put this line in the button click event:

rtc.Focus();

and when I click the button, the cursor appeared in the rtb. Try it and see if that's what you need.

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Jack Purdum, Ph.D.
Author: Beginning C# 3.0: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (and 14 other programming texts)

Thanks for your response, but giving the rich text box focus doesn't put the cursor at the upper left of the box and ready for input. If the "focus" command is supposed to work this way, then perhaps something is goofy in the way I set the control up. I want this to work like Wordpad does. When you open Wordpad, the cursor is already at the top left of the form and ready for input, no clicking required by the user. That's all I'm looking for here.

Do you have the tab index for the RTB as the first one in the list of controls? If some other control has a lower tab index, it will gain focus first. (I'm assuming you already did this, but this would cause the problem to manifest itself.)

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Jack Purdum, Ph.D.
Author: Beginning C# 3.0: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming (and 14 other programming texts)

Jack,
You were 100% correct. It was the tab control that was giving me the problem. I guess I had a brain freeze concerning the tabs. There was a button on my form that had a tab index of 2, and that's where the focus was being held when the application started. I changed my rich text box to a tab index of 1 and voila, the problem was solved. It's always the little things that come back to bite you! Thanks for your help.

Bob C.