Thank you for your quick reply.

The problem is not with the UltraTextEditor getting focus. The problem is Getting the focus to go to the other tools in the tool bar when tabbing. I do not want the UltraTextEditor to always be in edit mode. I do not want it to not be in edit mode when the focus is on other controls so it will show the null text. The TextTool for the tool bar does not have the NullText property or I would use that.

Thanks

Edit Mode in this context probably doesn't mean what you think it does. The only real ramifications of AlwaysInEditMode is that you won't get the benefit of some of the advanced Appearance settings like gradient backgrounds. Which you probably aren't using anyway. So I think setting AlwaysInEditMode to true is a good solution, if it works. NullText should still work and it will not really affect anything else in your application in any noticable way.

Did you try it out? 

Yes I did try setting AlwaysInEditMode to true. It did not fix the tabbing issue. It will still not tab past the text editor. Also when AlwaysInEditMode is set to true, the NullText will not show.
Either way the tabbing does not work with AlwaysInEditMode set to true or false.

What are the tools on? A Toolbar? A ribbon? A menu? 

Also... how are you giving focus to the UltraTextEditor? Are you tabbing into it or clicking on it. Pressing Alt will activate the first tool on a Toolbar and then Tab should iterate over the tools on that Toolbar at that point. I tried this out and the tab order is a little weird, but I'm not losing the focus like you describe. 

I created a sample for you to look at.

I have a form with a UltraToolbarManager with one toolbar
In the toolbar are two StateButtons with an UltraTextEditor in a ControlContainerTool placed between the tool buttons.
If I click on the first StateButton, the focus will be on that button. I can then tab to the UltraTextEditor. However, If I hit tab again, the second StateButton does not receive focus.

Here is some sample code that I am able to reproduce the issue with.

This is on a Form with a UltraPanel and a UltraToolbarsManager.
The tools are added programatically.

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
        {
            base.OnLoad(e);

            // Create tools for the toolbar.
            StateButtonTool stateButton1 = new StateButtonTool("StateButton1");
            StateButtonTool stateButton2 = new StateButtonTool("StateButton2");
            UltraTextEditor textEditor1 = new UltraTextEditor() { Name = "TextEditor1", Width = 100, NullText = "Type here", };
            // Create container for the text editor.
            ControlContainerTool editorContainerTool = new ControlContainerTool("EditorContainerTool");

            stateButton1.SharedProps.Caption = "StateButton1";
            stateButton1.SharedProps.DisplayStyle = ToolDisplayStyle.TextOnlyAlways;
            stateButton2.SharedProps.Caption = "StateButton2";
            stateButton2.SharedProps.DisplayStyle = ToolDisplayStyle.TextOnlyAlways;

            // Configure text editor.
            textEditor1.NullTextAppearance.TextHAlign = Infragistics.Win.HAlign.Left;
            textEditor1.AcceptsTab = false;
            textEditor1.TabIndex = 999;
            textEditor1.AlwaysInEditMode = false;

            // Add text editor to the container.
            editorContainerTool.Control = textEditor1;

            // Create toolbar and Add tools the tool bars manager and the toolbar.
            ultraToolbarsManager1.Toolbars.AddToolbar("Toolbar1");
            ultraToolbarsManager1.Tools.Add(stateButton1);
            ultraToolbarsManager1.Tools.Add(editorContainerTool);
            ultraToolbarsManager1.Tools.Add(stateButton2);

            // Add tool bar to manager and assign the tools the correct tool bar.
            ultraToolbarsManager1.Toolbars["Toolbar1"].Tools.InsertTool(0, "StateButton1");
            ultraToolbarsManager1.Toolbars["Toolbar1"].Tools.InsertTool(1, "EditorContainerTool");
            ultraToolbarsManager1.Toolbars["Toolbar1"].Tools.InsertTool(2, "StateButton2");

            ultraToolbarsManager1.Toolbars["Toolbar1"].Tools["EditorContainerTool"].InstanceProps.IsFirstInGroup = true;
            ultraToolbarsManager1.Toolbars["Toolbar1"].Tools["StateButton2"].InstanceProps.IsFirstInGroup = true;
        }

So If I understand what your are saying, Since I am using a UltraTextEditor control in the toolbar, the tabbing will go to the next control outside of the tool bar and not to the next tool in the tool bar.
Is that correct?

That's what appears to be happening in my testing. Not sure if that's something we can fix or handle in another way. But it doesn't appear that the ToolbarsManager is attempting to do anything special here beyond tabbing INTO the ControlContainerTool. 

It can do that since before press tab in that case, it's really the ToolbarDockArea control that contains the focus, so it can handle that, examine the next tool, see that it's a ControlContainerTool, and set focus to that control. Once focus is on that control, it becomes a lot trickier, since that control can be anything and it's not a control that's owned by or created by the ToolbarsManager. Which is not to say that it's impossible, only that we would have to look into it. 

It might be a good idea for us (Divya) to write that up in our system so we can investigate. 

But the point I was trying to get at here is that I'm not seeing the "tabbing to nowhere" behavior that you are describing. Are you seeing that behavior with my sample?