>>Expected: a not Visible object ( even if indirectly ) it cannot receive the focus
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>Disagreed. Just because setting .Visible takes it out of the GUI event loop, doesn't mean the control shouldn't respond to explicit calls in other code.

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I agree. What I didn't think about was the Enabled property. Visible = .F. doesn't mean that the object shouldn't respond to events. In fact, back in the old FPD/FPW days, I use to set the visible state on some controls to .F. precisely to allow a user to do something like click on a label and have it activate a dialog.