>>>I have tried to place the current page's page number in the pageframe's >"ACTIVEPAGE" property
>>Try NODEFAULT in your DEACTIVATE(). It works, but gives visual side effects on pageframe's tabs, but ACTIVEPAGE still remains the same.
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>I see what you mean about the pageframe's tabs. NODEFAULT works fine on a pageframe with two pages, but screws up on the tabs when there are more than 2 pages.
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>On a more complicated pageframe, suppose I was at page 1 and clicked on page 3. And suppose I have a NODEFAULT in the DEACTIVATE method of page 1, I stay at page 1 OK but the page 2 tab would be highlighted. If I click on page 4, then the NODEFAULT would cause the page 3 tab to be highlighted, etc. etc.
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>Know how to get around this problem as well?
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>Thanks.
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>Paul
why not put the following code in the deactivate method if an error has occurred

say on page 3's deactivate method


if error (etc)
thisform.pageframe1.activepage=3
endif

this should force the focus back to the page