>>>Hello guys, I know that in 5.0 I can not call SetFocus
>>>from within a "When","Valid" or some other methods, but
>>>I am calling setfocus from the click event of a button
>>>and I am having the same error:
>>>"SetFocus can not be called from When,Valid..."
>>>Is there any other condition that I am missing ?
>>
>>Luis,
>>
>>Just a reminder that you cannot use .SetFocus to restore focus to the object in its .LostFocus event, or in any other event if the object already has the focus.
>>
>>George
>
>Thanks George, I think that is my problem, but I can't find a
>solution to it. This is exactly the scenario :
>.- In the click event of my "Add" txtbtns I have
>
> THISFORM.FirstObject.Setfocus()
>
>it works fine when I click in the button, but from the valid
>event of THISFORM.FirstObject I have to call a method,
>that method perform a TABLEREVERT(.T.) and call
>the click event of "Add" again, at this point is when I receive
>the error. I was trying to find out if FirstObject already has
>the focus before doing the setFocus and it did not work. I use
>something like this:
>
>IF NOT THISFORM.ActiveObject.Name="FirstObject"
> THISFORM.FirstObject.SetFocus()
>ENDIF
>
>But then I receive the error "ActiveObject is not an object",
>the weird thing is that if I suspend the program after I receive
>the Setfocus error, I can say from the command line
>?THISFORM.ActiveObject.name
>and I get "FirstObject"
>
>Any suggestions on that ?
>Thanks again.

I think you may mean .ActiveControl rather than .ActiveObject (which I don't think exists).

HTH.

George