Set focus on form to nothing?

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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.
 
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.
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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
 
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)
 
What event would I put the code in?

Klatuu said:
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)
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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...
 
Good plan
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Dave Hargis, Microsoft Access MVP


XP said:
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...
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