>Does anybody know how to return the absolute name of a control on a form ?
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>For example, thisform.activecontrol.name will return the name of the control that currently has the focus, rather like _curobj. However, if that object is a member of a container, or perhaps it's on a pageframe, only name of the control itself is returned, and not the entire dynamic name.
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>So, if I place a text box called 'tbx1general1' on a pageframe called 'pgf1general1', and then in the gotfocus() of 'tbxgeneral1' I executed 'wait thisform.activecontrol.name window', I would expect to see 'tbx1general1'. However, I would actually like to see 'thisform.pgf1general1.tbx1general1'.
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>Any ideas ??????????
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>Regards
>
>Derek
Hi Derek.

Try sys(1272)

SYS(1272, oObjectName)

for example :

SYS(1272,_screen.activeform.activecontrol)
or
SYS(1272,thisform.activecontrol)

Cemal.