focus

[jdrott1]

I'm trying to input letters from a button into a couple different
textboxes. fields such as: firstname, lastname, address, phone
number.
so the focus can't be set to that textbox always. if they want to
type into the lastname box, then i would have to find where the focus
is?

a friend of mine wrote:

"when you "click" the button, the focus shifts to that button so
you're
going to have to manually figure out which textbox had focus before
you button click (maybe set a variable whenever a textbox gets focus
as there is an OnFocus event you can use)"

i'm not quite sure how to do this, can someone help me?

[Parag Joshi]

Re: focus

There is a Focussed property that tells you if a control has input focus.You
could iterate through all the controls on a form or just check the ones you
want to check if they have input focus. I am not sure if you are trying to
check from within one routine or multiple. If you are only checking from
within one control click event then its much easier. You just check which of
the 10 controls has input focus and act accordingly.

I guess you are using VS 2005?

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I'm trying to input letters from a button into a couple different
textboxes. fields such as: firstname, lastname, address, phone
number.
so the focus can't be set to that textbox always. if they want to
type into the lastname box, then i would have to find where the focus
is?
>
a friend of mine wrote:
>
"when you "click" the button, the focus shifts to that button so
you're
going to have to manually figure out which textbox had focus before
you button click (maybe set a variable whenever a textbox gets focus
as there is an OnFocus event you can use)"
>
i'm not quite sure how to do this, can someone help me?
>