SetFocus in Modal form

[Toot]

I've got a form which exists to get a small amount of input from a user - very much like the "InputBox" function. It's called like this

Dim sAnswer As String
sAnswer = dlgInput.AskUser(Caption [,Default])

The AskUser() function does a bit of setting up, fills the input text box with the default if it's supplied and that all works. It then displays the form Modally so that the user has to respond before it carries on. However, when I've filled the default in I want that to be the control that initially has focus - how do I do that??? I've tried

txtInput.SetFocus

but I get an error, presumably because the form isn't yet shown at this point.
Any ideas how I get the textbox to have focus, or can't I because of the nature of a modal form?

TIA,
Toot

[HeSaidJoe]

I presume you are tryin load event
move it to the form activate event

[Toot]

Thanks very much HeSaidJoe - worked a treat .

Toot