getting the last textbox that was focussed on and placing the focus on it

[vb_student]

Hello

Is it possible to get the last textbox that was focussed on set the focus back on it.

what i mean is say i had footext1.text and then moved to footext2.
and then due to an error condition, i want to go back to footext1,

is it possible to get the last "focussed textbox" and then select that textbox again?

[Static]

do your errorcheck in the Validate event of the checkbox...
Setting cancel to true will stop it from going to the next checkbox
like this:

Private Sub footext1_Validate(Cancel As Boolean)
    If CheckForErrorIsError Then
        Cancel = True
        footext1.SelStart = 0
        footext1.SelLength = Len(footext1)
    End If
End Sub

[vb_student]

thanks for the reply

is the validate method used when the textbox is about to go out of focus?

i guess the footext1.length repastes the text previously in the textbox, correct?

i guess the checkforerror is a flag, and i should probably name itas footextcheckforerror and initialise it to True in the form_load method, correct?

[Static]

no
ok..

the the selstart & sellength are to make it Highlight the text in the textbox so when the user types it will replace whats there...

the checkforerror was just made up.. you need to put your code in to check for the error. (not sure what you are checking for)

[vb_student]

thanks for the reply [A51g]Static
is the answer no, for both my questions
1. is the validate method used when the textbox is about to go out of focus?

2. i guess the footext1.length repastes the text previously in the textbox, correct?

can you tell me when the validate method is fired?
is .selstart = 0 right before the first character
and is .selstart = 3 possible?

i guess if i have a textbox footext and then do
do

footext.selstart = 2

followed by

footext.text = "test"

the .selstart value resets itself, correct?

[Static]

1)yes, the validate fires as soon as you try to leave the textbox
2) the sellength is just setting how many characters to Select (Highlight)

you can set selstart anywhere in the textbox
selstart just places the cursor in that position

and yes, if you set selstart = 2 then change the text in the textbox, selstart goes back to 0

[vb_student]

thanks for clearing my misunderstandings static