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Change the Tab Order of the Controls in a Dialog Box

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You can change the tab order of the controls in your dialog box by changing the Z order of the controls. You simply use the SetWindowPos API function.

For example, suppose you want to change the tab order of controls from A, B to B, A: 

HWND hPrevA = GetNextWindow(A, GW_HWNDPREV);HWND hNextB = GetNextWindow(B, GW_HWNDNEXT);SetWindowPos(B, hPrevA, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOMOVE );SetWindowPos(A, B,      0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOMOVE );SetWindowPos(hNextB, A, 0, 0, 0, 0, SWP_NOSIZE | SWP_NOMOVE );

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