Hi!

The ActiveControl property of the form drills down to the containers already. Grid is just interprete as a solid control, thus it requires special processing. Page frames and containers are already processed when value is prepared for ActiveCOntrol property.

Yes, you're right - most frameworks already include this kind of routine.

>>This is just a sample. To make it generic, you have to add checking for ActiveX controls, OLEBoundControl (you cannot compare field of General type) etc.
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>One other thought: you checked for the possibility of a grid, but anyone who uses pageframes would also have to check for a pageframe, and a grid within it ... in fact, you might need a form method like "RealActiveCtrl" which "drills down" through any active container objects into the lowest active non-container object.
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>To be really generic.
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>I bet the commercial frameworks all have something like this.