StaticText Visual indication on focus?

[Never]

is there a visual indication when statictext is focused? (focused rect?)
added several controls on a form and a statictext

there is a tabstop property for statictext  i set it to true but nothing
i miss something?

[taazz]

static text can't be focused so no focus line can be drawn, I think that the focusedControl property is there to allow you to select which control receives the focus when you tab in the statictext.

[Never]

yes there is a property focusedcontrol
so the tabstop property is there to serve the fousedcontrol
and not to [Allow the user to navigate to this control]
Thank you  @taazz

[ChrisF]

AFAIK, the fact that a text can be focused has nothing to do with the FocusControl property.


At least in Windows, text controls can be focused with tabulation keys (TAB or CTRL-TAB): using the WS_TABSTOP style for LTEXT/RTEXT/CTEXT controls. This is not bound to Delphi or Lazarus, but to Windows.

Delphi has just reproduced this behavior (so do Lazarus) with the TabStop property: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE7/en/Vcl.StdCtrls.TStaticText.TabStop

I admit it's a bit weird that nothing is visible when a text is focused, but anyway it's just working like this : texts get focus without any visible effect. BTW, there are not the only ones: Groupboxes, for instance, have the same behavior.


On another way, the FocusControl property is specific to Delphi/Lazarus-FreePascal (i.e. it's not related to Windows). It just set the focus to the desired control, if you press the mnemonic present in the caption of the concerned statictext/label.


So, to make it short:

- Tabstop: text can receive the focus with the tabulation keys (no visual indication),

- FocusControl: set the focus to another control, if text mnemonic (Alt+Key) is pressed.

** EDIT** That's also why Labels have a FocusControl property, but not TabStop/TabORder ones: they are not 'text controls' from the Windows point of view.