How to get the active control of the active form?

Hi all,

I want to get the active control (control which has the focus or where the cursor is on) each time the cursor moves to another control or each time a control receives a focus.

How do i do this?

Thanks.

you can use me.activecontrol. you need to handle the _gotfocus event of your controls

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by .paul.

you can use me.activecontrol. you need to handle the _gotfocus event of your controls

---

thanks...

i forgot about the Me.ActiveControl... :D

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by .paul.

you need to handle the _gotfocus event of your controls

---

isn't there a way to handle gotfocus by groups of items instead of doing it individually?

thanks.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by adshocker

Hi all,

I want to get the active control (control which has the focus or where the cursor is on) each time the cursor moves to another control or each time a control receives a focus.

How do i do this?

Thanks.

---

Me.Active Control will work for getting the control that has the focus, but I don't think there is anything that easy for getting which control the Mouse is over.

Your best bet is to give all the controls the same MouseEnter event and in it use typeof sender to determine what type the control is and then trycast to convert it into to whatever control it is.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by .paul.

you need to handle the _gotfocus event of your controls

---

Enter and Leave, NOT GotFocus and LostFocus.

thanks..

i'll give it a try.