Brenda,

Finding a generic way of addressing the activecontrol when pageframes and grids are involved without using a framework that already knows the activecontrol is not a pretty sight.

Your best bet is to use a form class where you can add a method to do this for you. Then from your toolbar or menu you can _screen.activeForm.UpdateBuffers() or whatever name you give the method.

In that method you would need to read the currently active control and determine if it is a page or a grid or what and appropriately deal with it. The form class that I have uses a property of the form named LastControl. Every control's GotFocus sets a self reference to THISFORM.LastControl and the form's Destroy sets LastControl to NULL. So all I have to do in a toolbar is oApp.oForm.LastControl.SetFocus(). oApp is the application object, oForm is a property of teh application object that holds a reference to the current form. All fomrs are run by calling oApp.LaunchForm so that app can track teh forms. Every form reports in to oApp on Activate, Deactivate, and destroy.