David,

You're right, but I thought I'd ask before changing my logic.

Thanks.

Marc




>>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
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>Hi Marc,
>Sounds best to use a property of the form. Adding some code to the gotfocus of object base classes should do it.
>I've had other related problems with "when" not firing. It seems it's been shoe-horned in for backward compatibility.