>I always though the When() will get control when you click on the object or object get control.
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>Does the grid has a different behavior?
>For example, the first time I click in a grid, let say column 3. the when() of column 2 get fired.
>is that weird behavior? or it is by design? or it is me?

After reading the rest of the thread, I think the easier way out of this would be to bindevent() your textbox's .gotfocus() to a custom method of a grid or some of its parent objects - or of any other object. You can, maybe, do the binding itself from grid's .init() - by that time the grid's controls have instantiated, but if the object you're binding to is a parent object to the grid, or a sibling, or a member of a parent.parent (and so on), it may not be instantiated yet; you may have to wait until the .activate() of the parent. If it's a custom grid and you have the vcx, just add a new method to it, and bindevent() to that method.

There you can use aevents() to get a reference to the object whose .gotfocus() has fired, so from that point on you can do in this method whatever you wanted to do in the .when().