>Does anyone know why the following happens?
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>I am on a Edit Page with a lot of Text Boxes.
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>I press the Add New button. It scatters blanks to all of the Text Boxes and tries to Set Focus to Text Field 1.
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>For some reason, VFP will not Set Focus to where I tell it too. Immediately after the textfield1.SETFOCUS() statement, the textfield1.WHEN runs and then the textfield1.VALID runs, even though I have not been "been" to the field yet. Focus lands at the top of the page.
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>Most of the time for me, the SETFOCUS() command works like a champ.
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>By the way. This is a two page form and I have the same button "ADD NEW" that calls the same methods and focus is set to the other page TextField1 just like it is supposed too??????
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>Thanks....Tim

What command are you issuing? ThisForm.ContainerName.TextBoxName.SetFocus()? ThisForm.TextBoxName.SetFocus()? You also can not issue a SetFocus() from Valid method of a control.