>>>Hi,
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>>>Programmatically, if I am in a method of a textbox, is there anyway I can determine whether the textbox itself is currently the active control which has focus?
>>>
>>>tslim
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>>Have you tried testing thisform.ActiveControl.name ?
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>Not enough. It could be a control in one of many containers of the same class, and a member in each of these containers would have the same .name. We'd have form.container1.textbox1, form.container2.textbox1 again etc. Instead, compobj(thisform.activecontrol, this) would do it.
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>Though it's possible that nothing has control at the time, i.e. thisform.activecontrol may be null, so some checking needs to be done.

What if I add a property say lHasFocus, then set its value each time when the event GotFocus and LostFocus are triggered...
will I still miss anything?