Which field has focus

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Hi,


Control. A Form owns controls, a Table owns fields. Those are two different
things. It may occur that both have the same name, but a field in a table
exists even without any form displaying it and an unbound control has no ...
field ... to relate to.

Screen.ActiveControl could help to get the control with the focus ( but you
cannot easily debug step by step over such a statement, on the other hand,
since the control would loose it focus to the window with the code being
debugged in step by step mode).



Hoping it may help,
Vanderghast, Access MVP
 
Shane said:
How do you determine which field has the focus on a form in VB.
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In the same form as the code:
Me.ActiveControl
or, it the code in not in the same form as the control:
Forms!nameof form.ActiveControl
 

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