I have a form with several subforms on it. When the main form's record is in
a certain state, I disable the various fields on the form and subform.

However, since the subforms get focus as well as the main form, when I go to
disable them I get an error saying you can't disable the field with focus.

I tried creating a hidden field, but for some reason I couldn't SetFocus to
it.

Is there a "best practice" solution to this?

Maury

Don't you have a button on your form? That's where I put the focus in a
situation like this. If you do want to use a hidden control place it under
the button or just place it in the form and set the properties to the color
of the form.

hth
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Maurice Ausum


"Maury Markowitz" wrote:

> I have a form with several subforms on it. When the main form's record is in
> a certain state, I disable the various fields on the form and subform.
>
> However, since the subforms get focus as well as the main form, when I go to
> disable them I get an error saying you can't disable the field with focus.
>
> I tried creating a hidden field, but for some reason I couldn't SetFocus to
> it.
>
> Is there a "best practice" solution to this?
>
> Maury

"Maurice" wrote:

> Don't you have a button on your form?

Actually, no, the subforms are display only. But I'll add a hidden button
instead, that seems easy enough!

Maury

On Jul 16, 9:44 am, Maury Markowitz
<MauryMarkow...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have a form with several subforms on it. When the main form's record is in
> a certain state, I disable the various fields on the form and subform.
>
> However, since the subforms get focus as well as the main form, when I go to
> disable them I get an error saying you can't disable the field with focus.
>
> I tried creating a hidden field, but for some reason I couldn't SetFocus to
> it.
>
> Is there a "best practice" solution to this?
>
> Maury

You would probably have to setfocus to another control on your form
and then disable whatever you wanted...

yup you have the to do that some computers do not work
"Maury Markowitz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> "Maurice" wrote:
>
> > Don't you have a button on your form?
>
> Actually, no, the subforms are display only. But I'll add a hidden button
> instead, that seems easy enough!
>
> Maury