>I have a textbox2 which never receives the focus when textbox1 explicitly says thisform.mytextbox2.setfocus in several of its events.
>instead, a cmdbutton gets the focus. I have even blanked out all of textbox2's events. I have to actually place the cursor manually with the mouse into textbox2 to give it the focus.
Timothy,

From what methods are you doing the setfocus call? If it is the lsotfocus you must also issue a NODEFAULT command so VFP doesn't setfocus automatically on loosing focus.