Hi, im creating a new control through inherit a treeview. but i want to make the control being accessable through mouse and not keyboard (The control should not be in focus anyway). Im using the tabstop property false but i was unable to set the canselect/canfocus properties. How can i make a focusless control.

Regards

I think this will be a bit tricky. The TreeView has a lot of code to deal with the keyboard so if you inherit from it you'll need to disable all of that. Your best best may be to override its WndProc and discard keyboard events.

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hi, i can discard the keyboard through WndProc, but i want to ensure that there sould be no focus on my control (like label control). if i use ur suggestion, the keys are not work but the focus remains on my control.

Rod, i have a C# solution, and he recommend that

Subclass the control and SetStyle(ControlStyles.Selectable, false);

but how can i do this in vb

I think you may need to use a combination of the two techniques. When I try the SetStyle method, it prevents the user from tabbing to the control but if I click on it I can then use the mouse to move through its nodes. So perhaps you can do that to prevent tabbing onto the control and then use WndProc to ignore keyboard events.

To set the style, add this constructor to your derived class:

    Public Sub New()
        MyBase.New()

        Me.SetStyle(ControlStyles.Selectable, False)
        Me.UpdateStyles()
    End Sub

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