Capture name of control that has focus

[aerohost]

Hi, I'm trying to get the ID of a form control that has the current focus. It seemed to me the AddEvent in combination with the Sender function would do the trick, but it doesn't seem to work when I try the example in the help.

Here's the code:

Sub App_Start
AddEvent("cbShipName", Click, "FieldGotFocus")
End Sub

FieldGotFocus
Msgbox(Sender)
End Sub

Anyone have any ideas? Do I have to add a library or something like that?

Tks, AB

[Erel]

Which type of controls do you have on your form?
For controls that support the GotFocus event you can use something like:

Sub Globals
    'Declare the global variables here.

End Sub

Sub App_Start
    Form1.Show
    AddEvent("TextBox1",GotFocus,"GotFocus")
    AddEvent("TextBox2",GotFocus,"GotFocus")
    AddEvent("TextBox3",GotFocus,"GotFocus")
End Sub

Sub GotFocus
    form1.Text = Sender
    Sender.Color = cGreen
End Sub

[aerohost]

Hi Erel, thanks, that works perfectly, it's just what I needed.

But, I'm wondering why it doesn't work when I use the event Click instead of GotFocus? When I run it on the desktop and click the field, there's no response ...

Also, is there a list of the different event types somewhere?

Thanks, Adrian

[agraham]

Originally Posted by aerohost

But, I'm wondering why it doesn't work when I use the event Click instead of GotFocus?

Do the controls you are using actually support the Click event? Only a very few do!

[Erel]

Also, is there a list of the different event types somewhere?

The help description of each control contains the list of events.

[aerohost]

Ok, thanks to you both, I get it. I was using a control that doesn't support the Click event - now I understand where to see the list of supported events for each control.

Regards, AB