Sugg.: Keep focus in View "Tab Order"

[Peter2]

When I click on a control-name in the tab-order-panel, the control is highlighted in the dialogue - and the focus jumps back to dialogue. Mostly a fine behaviour.

But sometimes I want to check all controls in a dialogue, and for this it would be great to click the first control (in tab-view) that I'm interested in, and went through all following entries with cursor-up / cursor-down (standard handling of any list in Windows). Due to the lost focus I can not use the cursor and have to click - click - click with the mouse.

What's about of (optional?) modifying this behaviour? (The current solution has its advantages too ...)

Peter

[owenwengerd]

Would it be sufficient to just invent a new accelerator, say Ctrl+Tab, to deselect the current selection and select the control after the one with current focus? An accelerator would work from any context; it wouldn't be restricted to the tab/z-order list control.

[Peter2]

Would it be sufficient to just invent a new accelerator, say Ctrl+Tab, ...

I suppose "yes" (one for forward, one backward).

At first I tried to find some keys to automatize it with Autohotkey, but the (maybe?) only keys are in the menu. So it is not easy to make some "macros" ...