Terry,

>Sometimes I need to "idle" a focus away from a control, I use a little-bitty tansparent (not invisible) textbox control that I hide behind some other control on the form. When I need to loose the focus - I setfocus to the tiny textbox.

I use the same technique only I place my textbox offscreen where it can never be seen, i.e. This.Move( -1000, -1000 )

Two problems with this technique:

1. I don't want the current control to lose focus causing premature validation

2. Even with focus moved elsewhere, other input controls can still bleed through a container.

Herman Tan asked me to post an example which I will do over the next day or so. (Have to simplify my code so I don't end up posting an entire framework)

>That Dragan - where would the digital rights cause of everyday form controls be without Dragan's advocations!:-)

LOL!

Malcolm