TWinControl.TabStop property
Allows the user to navigate to / from the control by pressing the Tab or Shift+Tab keys.
Declaration
property TabStop: Boolean read FTabStop write SetTabStop default False;Description
TabStop is a
TabStop property which indicates if the
control can be focused when using the
Tab or
Shift+Tab keys to
navigate between controls on a form. The default value for the property is
False. At design-time, the Lazarus IDE sets the value to
True
in newly created control instances.
When set to True, the windows style flags are updated to include the value WS_TABSTOP in the CreateParams method.
Changing the value for the property causes the internal tab order list to be updated, and a CM_TABSTOPCHANGED control message is performed for the control.
TabStop is used in methods like FindNextControl, and may be updated in methods like Insert.
See also
An experiment, built from Lazarus main 2dfa93c66e of 10-22-2026. Not the official Lazarus documentation.