Setting focus to a textbox (RESOLVED)

[divined]

Hello everybody

I`m trying to do something rather simple, which is trying to set the focus on a textbox from within a Form`s load event. Unfortunately I`m getting a runtime error on that code.

txtBox.Setfocus = True

Does anyone have some idea?

thx, in advance

George Papadopoulos

[brucevde]

You cannot set Focus to a control whose Visible or Enabled properties are False. The Visible property of a control is False until the Form is shown.

Three ways around this.

Move the SetFocus code to the Form Activate event.

Call the Show method in Form Load event and then call SetFocus.

Set the TabIndex of the text box to 0 and remove the call to SetFocus.

[divined]

ok. thx! I used the Form Activate event handler to set the focus and now it worked!

George Papadopoulos