Juan,

But where are you checking ActiveControl? The Timer event of a timer? Is the Timer a member of the same form? A method of a Toolbar? The place you are running the code from may be what's making ActiveControl invalid. I was trying to give you an alternative to having to track the current control with a separate property and the complexity it causes.

>I am currently attempting this with an Edit Control. However, it appear that what ever object I try this with it fails.
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>I have tried _SCREEN.ActiveForm and I can get the name of the form in focus. Although, if I were to go a little further and issue a _SCREEN.ActiveForm.ActiveControl I never get a reference to the currently focused object.
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>As a work around, I've implemented something that Edward Pikman recommended. Eds approach was to create a property on the form to keep track of the last focused object, and in every object's GotFocus event, update that form property.