GetFocus

Description

Occurs just before the control receives focus (before it is selected and becomes active).

GetFocus applies to all controls

Event ID

Event ID

Objects

pbm_bnsetfocus

CheckBox, CommandButton, Graph, OLE, Picture, PictureHyperLink, PictureButton, RadioButton

pbm_cbnsetfocus

DropDownListBox, DropDownPictureListBox

pbm_dwnsetfocus

DataWindow

pbm_ensetfocus

SingleLineEdit, EditMask, MultiLineEdit, StaticText, StaticHyperLink

pbm_lbnsetfocus

ListBox, PictureListBox

pbm_lvnsetfocus

ListView

pbm_rensetfocus

RichTextEdit

pbm_sbnsetfocus

HScrollBar, HTrackBar, VScrollBar, VTrackBar

pbm_setfocus

HProgressBar, VProgressBar, DatePicker, MonthCalendar, InkEdit, InkPicture

pbm_tcnsetfocus

Tab

pbm_tvnsetfocus

TreeView


Arguments

None

Return Values

Long.

Return code choices (specified in a RETURN statement):

0 -- Continue processing

Examples

Example 1

This example in a SingleLineEdit control's GetFocus event selects the text in the control when the user tabs to it:

This.SelectText(1, Len(This.Text))

Example 2

In Example 1, when the user clicks the SingleLineEdit rather than tabbing to it, the control gets focus and the text is highlighted, but then the click deselects the text. If you define a user event that selects the text and then post that event in the GetFocus event, the highlighting works when the user both tabs and clicks. This code is in the GetFocus event:

This. EVENT POST ue_select( )

This code is in the ue_select user event:

This.SelectText(1, Len(This.Text))

See also

Clicked

LoseFocus