>>>I use _VFP.ActiveForm.ActiveControl.SetFocus, so the current control loses focus to regain it! :-)
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>>Great. That did the trick.
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>>Funny though that setting the focus to the control causes this behaviour. :-)
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>One thing I thought after sending the message; I think that if ActiveControl is a grid, then this trick doesn't work. What I do in those cases is to SetFocus to another control (or column of the same grid) and SetFocus back where the user was. Perhaps a little experimentation with that case is in order...

Thanks for the tip.

One thing I found out was that _screen.activeform.activecontrol gives an error if there is no active control. I was able to accomodate for this in my error handler though.