>>>I know I will be riduculed for this by I handled that situation in an old VFP3 Application by In the Main Startup a I defined a global variable 'gccurrentfocus' that on got focus in each item in all containers was assigned the name of the control...

Congratullations Edgar, really a great solution, simple yet very functional! (By the way, as an old Cobol dog I still like to use some of these solutions <s>).

Just curious, you though would be ridicularized because of what?

Fernando