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JonnieMorgan

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Hi All, newbie question, forgive me for not searching the forum for this first but I’m unsure of the terminology!



I have a form there is a Form_Current event that sets the focus to a txt box:-

Forms!frmMedBrowser!FocustxtBox.SetFocus

This works fine, however when I put this form into a Navigation Form I get an error saying it cant find the form, so I’m thinking it might have something todo with the (excuse my terminology here) referencing of the object so I added:-

Forms!NavigationForm!frmMedBrowser!FocustxtBox.SetFocus to the statement.



But as you can guess that doesn’t work, would some kind person point me in the direction of the answer please?

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Jon
 

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Have to reference subforms through the subform container control. On regular form/subform arrangement I always name container different from object it holds, like ctrMed. When a Navigation Form is created, Access defaults with NavigationSubform, so try:

Forms!NavigationForm.NavigationSubform.Form.FocustxtBox.SetFocus

Access names the main form as Navigation Form - with a space. Did you change so space is removed?
 

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Thank you. I see where I was wrong now! Not too far off was I! Yes I did delete the space.
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If the "textbox" you want to setfocus is on the same form as the
current event:

just use Me.textbox.Setfocus, on the current event.
 

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Even better, which leads me onto my next question. If I should start a new thread please tell me.
I have this FocusTxtBox on pretty much all my forms as it irritates me greatly otherwise. It would save me time if I could save and reuse the txtbox in other forms rather than creating a new one every time.

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it can be done, but the problem is the placement of the textbox.
what is easier to do, is add a textbox and have a Class that
is reusable.
everytime Current event is triggered on the form, the textbox get focus.
 

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Right OK thanks for the example. I think for now I will plod on with old faithful and come back to that part later on in my learning.

Thank you for your answers.

Jon
 

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