>>In an earlier message (thread # 139555) Edward Pikman suggested I could keep the focus within the current form of a formset by trapping for TAB, Enter, arrows, etc. in the keypress events of the first and last controls.
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>>While this works fine for most situations, I can't figure out how to influence the focus when the last control in the tab order is a text or edit box and the user fills up the preset length.
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>>This is what I've tried in the text box InteractiveChange event:
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>>IF LEN(TRIM(THIS.Value)) = 5 && the InputMask property is XXXXX
>>THISFORM.cbNext.SetFocus
>>ENDIF
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>>but it doesn't work.
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>>Any ideas ?
>Instead isn't it easier moving THISFORM.cbNext.SetFocus to lostfocus of this. Or are you trying this control also lose focus when LEN(TRIM(THIS.text)) = len(this.inputmask) ?
>Cetin

The problem is if the user goes back to THIS and then clicks on another control or uses up-arrow, Shift+Tab, etc to change the focus, his focus will automatically go to THISFORM.cbNext.

Werner