Sergey,

You know, I thought the same thing, but it bailed when I just tested it. So I looked in the help file. Macro substition treates the contents of the var as a string literal. So having an object in there shouldn't work.

This works:

lcDefault = "Thisform." + thisform.cDefault.name
&lcDefault..SetFocus()

or am I missing something?

>Hi Ric,
>
>You need two dots. The first one denotes the end of the macro substitution.

IF !EMPTY(THISFORM.cDefault)
>  lcDefault = THISFORM.cDefault
>  &lcDefault..SetFocus()
>ENDIF

>
>
>>TIA to you all because this is a no brainer (I left mine at home today).... in certain situations I pass a default control name to a form property.... I want the form to select that control id as the next to get focus - overriding the tab order.... could some please tell me why this isn't working??
>>
>>IF !EMPTY(THISFORM.cDefault)
>> lcDefault = THISFORM.cDefault
>> &lcDefault.SetFocus()
>>ENDIF
>>
>>I know the answer is here somewhere, but not in my brain today... :-)
>>
>>Ric