Juan,

I've never used thisform.ActiveControl frankly I've never found a use for it. I've only used _screen.ActiveForm.ActiveControl a couple of times for a voyeuristic extension to the object inspector I wrote for the PTF-OOP book. If you are going to use either one it's common practice to have to test them using type() to see if they are currently pointing to an object.

I think the debugger pulls focus away from VFP making no control active as far as ActiveControl is concerned. Where exactly are you trying to use ActiveControl?

>That is exactly right, if I use THISFORM.ActiveControl.Name I should see the name of the focused object. However, this does not work! In addition, I have tried placing a break point in the debugger, placed a watch for THISFORM.ActiveControl.Name and the expression can not be evaluated.