setting a focus on a textbox

[Psychotron]

is there a way to set the focus of a textbox to false after data is inserted into it?

[wolfofthenorth]

You could make it read only, but that won't stop it from getting the focus.

You could disable it.

You could set the tabstop to false. A user would have to click it manually to set the focus on it.

Any of these help?

[Psychotron]

the only problem is that my program automatically inserts text, and when it inserts the text it gives the focus to the textbox.

i'm thinking i could try something like making an invisible checkbox and checking it after the text is entered.

thanks for the help.

[SAS-Trooper]

What about putting the the textbox in a frame controle and then disable the frame after you've added the data, would that send the focus to another controle, don't know if that will work though

[Psychotron]

well, i think i've narrowed down the problem. i have the code: "If textbox1.focus = false then..." on my group Leave event. so when i compile and click on any control outside my group (when i leave the group) and my code subsequently checks to see if the textbox focus is false, it GIVES the textbox focus.

the first click on a control outside my group does not activate the control, but gives the textbox focus. i've now left my group and the textbox has focus, but the control hasn't responded (which was the point of clicking on it). only after another click (after i've left the group) will the control respond. if i leave out the code to check if the textbox has focus everything works fine.

this can't be how it's supposed to work can it?

[wolfofthenorth]

If textbox1.focus = fasle

textbox1.focus is actually a function call that will give the control the focus. The return value from that call is being evaluated by your if statement.

Maybe you can set a flag in the controls enter/leave event to determine if it has the focus. I'm not on a computer with .NET, so I can't check to see for sure, but I don't think you could get lucky enough for there to be a HasFocus property.

[wolfofthenorth]

Try the ContainsFocus or Focused property. ContainsFocus will look at child controls as well as the parent. Hope this helps.