While a customizable tab order wouldn’t be a bad thing, I personally hate the way Visual Basic does it. Their ‘tab order’ ( at least back in the day when I used VB) was an integer that was initialized based on the order that you had dropped the components on the screen, which meant that the tab order was always wrong and bizarre. Also, whenever you rearrange a screen, the tab order would get screwed up, forcing a tedious re-ordering task.
FactoryPMI intuits the tab order based on right-to-left top-to-bottom positioning of the components. This might not be perfect, but we’d have to think of a better way than VB’s method before we were to change it…
Anyhow, glad you got it working by group the components together in containers.