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From
17/12/2001 12:57:50
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00594634
Message ID:
00595215
Views:
27
>>When I ask for ThisForm.ActiveControl in the debugger, it says, it can't evaluate the expression.
>>
>>I tried to intercept KeyPress at the form level (Form.KeyPreview = .T.), and wanted to know in what object the user was. Does this property do nothing usefull at all? Or what am I missing?
>>
>According to Hacker's Guide™ to Visual FoxPro® 6.0 'Utterly annoying, however, is that when you switch focus to the Debugger, ActiveControl no longer works'.

Great! This answered my question. Further testing (with WAIT WINDOW) revealed that, indeed, I can use the ActiveControl property after all.

Hilmar.
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