How to get the active control of the active form?

[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.

[.paul.]

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

[adshocker]

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

thanks...

i forgot about the Me.ActiveControl...

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.

[Vectris]

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.

[jmcilhinney]

you need to handle the _gotfocus event of your controls

Enter and Leave, NOT GotFocus and LostFocus.

[adshocker]

thanks..

i'll give it a try.