How Do I...
You might want users of your application to be able to move from part to
part by pressing the Tab key. You can set the order in which
input focus moves among parts after a Tab key is pressed.
To set the tabbing order:
- Open a Composition Editor on the main window for your application.
- Using mouse button 2, click once your application's main visual
part. It's usually the Window part. (For UNIX, use mouse
button 3.)
- From the part's displayed pop-up menu, select Set Tabbing
> Show Tab Tags. Numbered tags appear
beside parts that take user input.
For a part such as AlarmClockView, the tags might
resemble the following:

The tab having 1 gets input focus first, and the tabbing order
progresses numerically.
- Set the tabbing order by selecting Set Tabbing
> Default Ordering from the pop-up menu for the
application's main visual part. Default Ordering sets
the tabbing order so parts in the upper-left of the visual part get input
focus first and parts in the lower-right get input focus last.
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