problem w/ set focus

[Guest]

I have a form in which I'm setting focus to a command button in code. The
button is visible, not locked, and enabled. When I execute the line in code
to set focus, I get an error that says I can't set focus to the control. Odd
thing is that this code worked on this form for several months. Gremlins?

 

[missinglinq via AccessMonster.com]

99% of the time when I hear this complaint the final answer is that the
"command button" is not actually a command button, but rather a label whose
Click event is being used, and labels cannot receive focus! If that's not it,
my next guess would, indeed, be gremlins!

I have a form in which I'm setting focus to a command button in code. The
button is visible, not locked, and enabled. When I execute the line in code
to set focus, I get an error that says I can't set focus to the control. Odd
thing is that this code worked on this form for several months. Gremlins?

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There's ALWAYS more than one way to skin a cat!

Answers/posts based on Access 2000

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[Bob Howard]

Is the button in a subform which, perhaps, is locked?

 

[UpRider]

Hmmmm, it has been my experience that you cannot set the focus to an
invisible command button, nor can you set the visible property to false for
a command button that has the focus.
If your form has worked with this code for several months, the code
apparently was never invoked until now.

UpRider

 

[Guest]

It's on one form and isn't locked. And it works in Access 2003, but not 2002.

 

[Guest]

Has something recently hanged? Did you upgrade to a different version of
Access? What is your code?

Post back with some more info and someone may be able to help you.

 

[Guest]

Verry interesting. When I run the code in Access 2003, it works. The
problem appeared in Access 2002 after one of a number of updates. Don't know
which one. Any other ideas would be appreciated very much. Also, this app
is an adp. All the mbd's work ok in this respect.

 

[Guest]

1. Nothing hung up. DB gets decompiled, compacted and repaired regularly.
2. Code doesn't work in Access 2002, but 2003 is ok.
3. Code looks like me.cmdButton.SetFocus
THanks