Subform takes focus from top of main form (1 Viewer)

[rfaircloth]

I have a form that I created that has a tab control. When the form loads, it automatically sets the focus to a field in the subform. This wouldn't be a problem, except when it does it hides the tabs at the top of the form so I have to go and scroll back up every time I click a tab so that I can see the tabs. Is there a way to adjust this? I have tried hiding a field and setting the focus to it and that didn't work. I also tried setting the focus to the actual tab, but that also did not work. Anyone have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Ronnie

 

[GinaWhipp]

Is there a field on your Main Form? Why not set the focus to that?

 

[rfaircloth]

No, no other fields in the main form. All it has is the tab controls with subforms.

 

[GinaWhipp]

Hmm, the only time I can think of this happening is when the Subforms are placed to high on the Tab Control... try moving them down.

 

[rfaircloth]

Tried moving it down about an inch or so, but that still didn't work.

 

[GinaWhipp]

Is the Tab Control at the very Top of the Main Form? Try moving it down.

 

[vbaInet]

You can use a little trick to get it to move up.

1. Create a textbox
2. Set the following properties of the textbox:

Name - txtHidden
Width - 0.002
Height - 0.002
Top - 0
Left - 0
Border Style - Transparent
Locked - Yes
Tab Index - 0
Tab Stop - No

3. Put code in the Open or Load event of your form to move focus to this textbox:

Me.txtHidden.SetFocus

 

[vbaInet]

Just re-iterating what Gina mentioned in her first post.

 

[rfaircloth]

Yeah, I ended up creating a tiny text box and putting it up in the corner and setting the focus to that and it works now.