>>>What Exactly are you trying to do?? cause if u want to do something when the textbox gets focused you can use the When Method...
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>>When the textbox gets the focus, I want a label to 'blink' done via the visible property thru a timer that I have going.
>>So in the timer, I need an if statment to determine if the textbox has the focus.
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>You can create a form property IsTextboxHasFocus, set it to true in textbox.GotFocus and to false in textbox.LostFocus and analyze this property in the timer.
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>Alternatively you can use:
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>if type('thisform.activecontrol.name')='C' and thisform.activecontrol.name = "MyTextbox"
>   ... your timer's code
>endif

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>I believe, the first approach is better from perfomance point of view, but the difference could be neglectable...

Right, a little critical cerebral activity to solve this one. I went with your 2nd choice as it was quick & easy. I have not had to use the "activecontrol" whateveryoucallit before, this was first time. Thanks again.