Set focus on form to nothing?

[XP]

Using Office 2003 and Windows XP;

Whenever my form loads and as users switch between tabs on a tab control:

1st choice) Set focus to nothing (i.e. no control at all), if possible.

2nd choice) if "nothing" can't be done, then the form itself? - if possible.

3rd choice) if "form" can't be done, then perhaps the current tab on the tab
control?

Can someone please post generic example code to do this?

Thanks much in advance.

 

[fredg]

Using Office 2003 and Windows XP;

Whenever my form loads and as users switch between tabs on a tab control:

1st choice) Set focus to nothing (i.e. no control at all), if possible.

2nd choice) if "nothing" can't be done, then the form itself? - if possible.

3rd choice) if "form" can't be done, then perhaps the current tab on the tab
control?

Can someone please post generic example code to do this?

Thanks much in advance.

I don't see what you expect to gain by this, but focus must go to a
control on the form.

If you don't wish it to go to a control that the user can see, add an
unbound text control to the form. Size it to a such a small size that
the user cannot see it, i.e. Width 0.001 and Height 0.001.
You'll need one on each tab.

Then code each tab's (Page1, Page2, etc.) click event:
Me.ControlName.SetFocus

 

[Klatuu]

If a form has any controls that can accept the focus, it will not take the
focus. You could just set the focus to the tab control page.

Me.MyTabeControl.Pages(n).SetFocus

Where n is the page number (Page1 is actually referred to as 0)

 

[XP]

What event would I put the code in?

If a form has any controls that can accept the focus, it will not take the
focus. You could just set the focus to the tab control page.

Me.MyTabeControl.Pages(n).SetFocus

Where n is the page number (Page1 is actually referred to as 0)

 

[Klatuu]

Depends on when you want to move to a different tab

 

[XP]

FYI, actually, what I've found to work best for me is the following:

1) Create a button on the form (i.e. not a tab) with no caption and set
Transparent = True

2) In the tab control change event, Me.btnFocus.SetFocus

That way I only need one control and one function.

Thanks for your help...

 

[Klatuu]

Good plan
--
Dave Hargis, Microsoft Access MVP

FYI, actually, what I've found to work best for me is the following:

1) Create a button on the form (i.e. not a tab) with no caption and set
Transparent = True

2) In the tab control change event, Me.btnFocus.SetFocus

That way I only need one control and one function.

Thanks for your help...