Got Focus and Activate events not working

[MAJICMnt]

I have a pop-up form that has a macro attached to the got focus and activate
events. The form, however is not calling upon those events. I added a
messagebox to the macro and it never opens. What could be a reason for this?

 

[Klatuu]

If you are talking about the form's got focus event, it will not fire if
there is any control on the form that can take the focus.

As to the Activate event, it should fire, but try moving it to the Load event.

 

[Dirk Goldgar]

I have a pop-up form that has a macro attached to the got focus and
activate
events. The form, however is not calling upon those events. I added a
messagebox to the macro and it never opens. What could be a reason for
this?

I don't think the Activate event fires for PopUp forms. I don't see
anything in the Access 2003 help file that explicitly says that, but it does
say that the Deactivate event doesn't fire for PopUp forms.

Klatuu has already explained about the form's GotFocus/LostFocus events.

 

[Linq Adams via AccessMonster.com]

Experimentation shows that (in ACC2003) Dirk is correct! Also note, from Help:


"Note The Activate event doesn't occur when a form receives focus back from
a dialog box, popup, or another form"

so it only makes sense that it doesn't work the other way either.

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