>>>>>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?
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>>>>Is there a click event for the control that you can use to fire the lostfocus of the active control?
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>>>It does have that kind of method but how would I know what control (textbox) I just came from? There are about 150 controls on my form that all need to make sure their valids are executed if the user alters the control. The Active X object is used to change pages on the form. I like the look of it. This problem seems like it could be a big deal for ALL Active X controls if this is what happens. There must be a way to make sure the valid/lost focus is executed?
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>>If the ActiveX control never caused the lostfocus to happen, then that control should still be the Form.ActiveControl. This is conjecture, but a fairly educated guess...
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>I will try this but this sure seems like a huge work around. Do all Active X controls have this problem?

No. Some do, some don't. I can't tell you what the key difference is.