How to keep focus in control after message??? 3

[Fekri]

Hi every one,

I have a form and incude some fields,
on one of the control , I added event which will check and compare with another control.
if is not acceptable will apear the message that you have to type somethings else.
when this message will close I want to keep focus on this control but I cannot.

anybody is there to help me????

thanks
Ali

 

[RoyVidar]

It sometimes helps seing the code.

I'm guessing that the challenge here, is that the event you're calling occurs when you're leaving the control, and that you need to setfocus back to this control.

You cannot set focus to a control alredy having focus, but one workaround, is to setfocus to another control first, then to this control:

[tt]if me!thiscontrol.value <> <somevalue> then
msgbox "blah..."
me!someothercontrol.setfocus
me!thiscontrol.setfocus
end if[/tt]

Roy-Vidar

 

[PHV]

Have you tried to use the BeforeUpdate event procedure of the control, setting the Cancel argument to true when the value is not acceptable ?

Hope This Help, PH.
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[ZmrAbdulla]

Hi RoyVidar,
Your post helped me in project.
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[ptuck]

PHV...wanted to say thanks for this reminder.. making the transition to C# and my brain has been fuzzy.

This is the correct way to keep the cursor on the right field...

Thanks again.