Winn,

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>>How are you switching pages? By mouse or keyboard action? If by keyboard, is there anything in keypress() method of textbox?
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>.activepage = 2

In what method is the above code?

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>>Also, put the following in setfocus() of textbox, and see if the setfocus() is really being called:
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>>activate screen
>>? program()

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>When I ran the above in my code, the text box received focus 2 times.
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>What do you think?

I think setfocus() is being called in 2 different places *grin*. But, from what you are describing, it is not really getting focus...to experiment with the firing order, you can put the same code (activate screen/? program()) in when() and gotfocus().