Hi James

While, I can do that there are instances where I also need to know up front before the control loses focus. I need a way to generically set a current control indicator and a previous control indicator.

I have discovered that if I put DODEFAULT() in the GotFocus event of the affected controls and use BINDEVENTS(myControl,'GotFocus',thisform,'CheckControl',1) the forms "ActiveControl" is a valid object.

I suspect/feel that this is an error in VFP or that the BindEvent needs another flag so that one could bind to the post event point.

Regards
Geoff Scott

>Geoff,
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>The way I do it is to put code in the lostfocus event of my controls that stores the object in a form property call oLastfocus. Then I can evaluate oLastfocus when I need to.
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>procedure lostfocus()  && textbox lostfocus
>thisform.oLastfocus = this
>endproc
>

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>>Hi
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>>I am having problems with the ActiveControl property. I need to know which control had focus prior to a command button being clicked. I thought I would use BINDEVENTS to bind the GotFocus event of all the controls and then use the form's ActiveControl property to determine what control had focus.
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>>Unfortunately, I always end up with Thisform.ActiveControl not evaluating to an object,
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>>Why is this and how can I determine which control has focus?
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>>Regards
>>Geoff Scott