The best place for this behavior is the GotFocus event for the form. You will only want to do this on the first occurance however. Just set a form property (form.Comment) to determine if further gotfocus events should call the firstfocus method/procedure. If the focus is set in any event prior to Form::activate the form instanciation sequence is skewed.

Glenn

>Where is the best place to set the focus for the first field on my form?
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>My form contains a class thats placed on the form, I'm assuming that this is interfering with the set focus.
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>Any ideas?
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>RC
>BSS