I have a textbox and I need to have the valid/lost focus methods run. I also have a DBI Active X control on my form used to change pages in my pageframe. My problem is that the valid/lost focus methods of my textboxes are not fired when I click on the Active X control. How can I force the valid/lost focus methods to fire. I tried putting an invisible commandbutton on top of the Active X control to manually make the calls to the Active X control but no controls can go on top of the Active X control even when I use "Bring to Front" Any ideas?