>Hi,
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>Command buttons can have a hotkey defined via the \<. So when the user presses the hot key, the click eventmethod is executed.
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>But I need to know which (other) control had the focus when the command button was clicked, so I found out that you can set a cActiveControl property to the name of the control that has the focus by issuing
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>this.cActiveControl=upper(thisform.activecontrol.name)
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>in the when eventmethod() of the button.
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>In the Click() eventmethod you can then conditionally execute code based on the setting of the cActiveControl property.
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>My problem is that when the user presses the hotkey, the when eventmethod() is not executed, so the click() method does not know "who called".
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>Anybody found a way to encapsulate this functionality in the command button allone, or are we to use the form to manage this?
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>TIA,
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>Marc

I saw many times, that Button.When event is highly unreliable in this situation. The 100% guaranteed approach is to subclass form.controls with Thisform.LastActiveControl=This in Parentclass.GotFocus event.