Fabio,

>careful, the race ends soon against a bug.
>
>Run this,
>- press GO
>- click on 2th TextBox
>- click on 1th TextBox
>*** GAME OVER ****

Thanks for pointing that out. In going back to my original notes I encountered other problems as well.

So ... it appears that the best (most reliable) way to set keyboard focus to a toolbar textbox/dropdown is to MOUSE CLICK AT on the control you want to give focus to. I haven't had any problems with this technique other than how ugly this solution looks in code.

Gratze,
Malcolm