Regain focus after lostfocus

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I am running a validation script on lostfocus of a textfield, this works fine, however, if the user manually selects another field (i.e.the other field getsfocus) the validation script runs, if the field does not pass the validation it is set the focus again but THEN the selected other field still gets the focus????

E.g. what is currently happening:

user selects txtValidateMe
user enters value in txtValidateMe
user selects txtOtherField
txtValidateMe.lostFocus validation script runs
txtValidateMe fails validation
txtValidateMe gets focus
txtOtherField gets focus

How do i stop txtOtherField getting focus once txtValidateMe has failed validation??????

Ta

 

[hymn]

If the validation fails put
txtValidateMe.setfocus
If they try to go to another field it will keep failing and so keep returning to that field

Hope this helps
Hymn

 

[PHV]

As your validation code is in the LostFocus event procedure of txtValidateMe you have to set the focus to another control before setting the focus back to txtValidateMe, something like this:
If validation fails Then
txtOtherField.SetFocus
txtValidateMe.SetFocus
End If

Hope This Helps, PH.
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