The WinForm SplitContainer gets the focus when it's dragged or clicked, while the Splitter does not. The side-effect of this, is that dragging a SplitContainer bar fires Leave/Validate on other controls, and I need to avoid this.
I already tried setting TabStop and CausesValidation to False, but with no success.
Is there a way to stop the SplitContainer from getting focused? (not a big deal, I can still use the old Splitter, but I lose some nice VS properties...)
Remove the SplitContainer control and replace it manually with Panel and Splitter controls. A little more effort, but a much cleaner outcome.
Try with this code:
//This code will move the focus from the splitContainer to TreeView shortly after moved.
private void splitContainer1_SplitterMoved(object sender, SplitterEventArgs e) {
if(this.splitContainer1.CanFocus) {
this.splitContainer1.ActiveControl = this.treeView1;
}
}
Filini,
The only time that the splitcontainer would have focus is when you are actually moving the splitter. So I would so something like this in your validating and leave events.
private void Button_Leave(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if(SplitContainer.ContainsFocus)
return;
}
I reproduced your issue and when I added the above it still calls the event of course, but the code execution doesn't occur because the SplitContainer has focus while you are moving the splitter.
Hope that helps.
