Is there a way of detecting which field on form has focus? 1

[huggyboy]

The title says it all really - some application or form property? cant find one

I'm sure is a programming way of doing it - on focus of every field set a public variable with its name to be picked up when i want to find the last one with focus kind of idea (will have to trap it some way when nothing has focus)

Thanks in anticipation

 

[RiverGuy]

Interesting. I looked this up on Google, and this is the first result I found.

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=404497&SiteID=1

I like the last option looks to be the easiest. Create a recursive routine to test all controls. Something like:

Private FocusedControl As Control
...
    Sub TestFocus(ByRef c As Control)
        If c.Focused = True Then
            FocusedControl = c
        Else
            For Each c1 As Control In c.Controls
                TestFocus(c1)
            Next
        End If
    End Sub

Then call it with:

Me.FocusedControl = Nothing
Call TestFocus(Me)
If Not FocusedControl Is Nothing Then MessageBox.Show(FocusedControl.Name.ToString)

 

[huggyboy]

Excellent - thanks - it did cross my mind to search all the controls on the form and i came across the focused property just after i posted the problem.
Will look at the link later - will use the solution you recommended - it is more elegant than the programming solution.

Cheers

 

[mansii]

This is just a thought. But isn't Me.ActiveControl would do?

 

[huggyboy]

That seems to work as well - which poses the question what is the differnce between the active control and the control that has the focus?

Stars for you both (bit of a problem - havent worked out how to award them!!)