>>>>>Is it possible to detect which control has a tab order of "1" and to set focus to that control?
>>>>
>>>>lnMin = 9999
>>>>
>>>>FOR lnI = 1 TO _Screen.ActiveForm.ControlCount
>>>> IF _Screen.ActiveControl.TabIndex < lnMin
>>>> lnMin = _Screen.ActiveControl.TabIndex
>>>> loControl = _Screen.ActiveControl
>>>> ENDIF
>>>>ENDFOR
>>>>
>>>>loControl.SetFocus()
>>>
>>>How do you set the focus to a Label object? What if the object is disabled?
>>>
>>>Besides, you should use ActiveForm.Controls[lnI] instead of ActiveControl.
>>>
>>>Vlad
>>
>>Thanks to all of you for responding so quickly. I posted this message at work and by the time I got home... wow!
>>
>>Anyway, here's what I finally came up with:
>>
>>* set focus to first field
>>IF THISFORM.DEMode <> "VIEW" && ADD or EDIT
>> nCtlNo = 1
>> DO WHILE nCtlNo < 99
>> IF THIS.CONTROLS(nCtlNo).TABINDEX = 1
>> THIS.CONTROLS(nCtlNo).SETFOCUS
>> nCtlNo = 99 && jump out of loop
>> ELSE
>> nCtlNo = nCtlNo + 1
>> ENDIF
>> ENDDO
>>ENDIF
>>
>>Note that:
>> - All edit controls (textbox, combo box, checkbox, etc) are disabled in
>> VIEW mode and VIEW is the startup mode.
>> - I set the Tab Order to 1 for the 'first' field.
>> - this approach does not continue to test further once it finds the
>> 'first' field.
>> - my standard form has a two-page pageframe with page one for 'Data Entry'
>> and page two for 'List'
>> - this code is in the Refresh method of Page1
>
>1. What do you do if the 1st control with TabIndex = 1 is a label?
>2. You can use the This.ControlCount instead of 99 (99 will give you an error if you try to access the Controls[99] and you don't have 99 controls (the same for any other value > ControlCount, obviously))
>3. Are you sure you'll always have a TabIndex = 1?
>
>Vlad

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the control with TabIndex=1 will always be the one I want. I always have to go in and set the tab order anyway so I just set the field I want to TabIndex=1.

I agree with point number 2.

Thanks again