tabstop

Generic Function

Package: common-graphics

Arguments: standard-object

Returns or sets with setf the value of the tabstop property of the argument. The value of this property can be true or nil. When a dialog is selected, pressing the TAB key can move focus from one control on the dialog to another. If the value of this property is true, pressing TAB will eventually move focus to this control. If the value is nil, this control will be skipped over by the TAB key. See tab-positiontab-position which determines how many times TAB must be pressed after the dialog first appears before this control is reached (assuming tabstop is true).

multi-line-editable-text and tabstop

If a multi-line-editable-text control has the focus and the user presses the TAB key, then, if the component has the tabstop property turned on, the effect is to move the focus to the next component in the tab order. If tabstop is off (or if the component is just a text-edit-pane window rather than a multi-line-editable-text dialog-item), then a tab character is inserted into the text. When the tabstop property is on, Shift-Tab inserts a tab character.

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