topic after OnKillFocus event, determine which control has the focus in ArcPad Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/after-onkillfocus-event-determine-which-control/m-p/409414#M2983 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is there a way to determine which control on a form currently has the focus?&nbsp; I see how to SetFocus for a particular control, but there does not appear to be either a HasFocus or an IsActive property for the form controls.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My form has two controls that hold the same information: an Edit control where the user to type anything and a ListBox for selecting from a series of common defaults.&nbsp; Whenever that information changes (when the change is complete, not halfway through the typed word), I want my vbscript code to update the other control to match, and update various other controls and related DBF tables.&nbsp; For the listbox I use the OnSelChange event, and I had been trying to use the OnKillFocus event for the textbox.&nbsp; However, if they user types something new in the Edit control and then clicks on a value in the ListBox, the OnKillFocus event (of course) runs before OnSelChange.&nbsp; Say user types "Drain#X" in the Edit control, then clicks on "Drain#Y" in the ListBox...&nbsp; The user would expect for "Drain#Y" to be the current value but "Drain#X" is used instead.&nbsp; In fact, "Drain#X" (the typed value) stays in the Edit control; the ListBox control now has the focus but no value is currently selected (waving the mouse up and down as I test this on my desktop causes the list to scroll).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If I could check within the OnKillFocus event's code whether the listbox is the new active control, then I could probably stop the update process before it completes.&nbsp; But I don't see a way of doing this.&nbsp; I suppose I will have to use a work around, adding OnSetFocus events to all form controls except the listbox, with code to check whether the textbox value differs from the listbox.&nbsp; But that will be rather tedious and I'm hoping for a simpler solution.&nbsp; Any ideas?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 May 2013 17:03:06 GMT SuzanneAngelo 2013-05-15T17:03:06Z after OnKillFocus event, determine which control has the focus https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/after-onkillfocus-event-determine-which-control/m-p/409414#M2983 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Is there a way to determine which control on a form currently has the focus?&nbsp; I see how to SetFocus for a particular control, but there does not appear to be either a HasFocus or an IsActive property for the form controls.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>My form has two controls that hold the same information: an Edit control where the user to type anything and a ListBox for selecting from a series of common defaults.&nbsp; Whenever that information changes (when the change is complete, not halfway through the typed word), I want my vbscript code to update the other control to match, and update various other controls and related DBF tables.&nbsp; For the listbox I use the OnSelChange event, and I had been trying to use the OnKillFocus event for the textbox.&nbsp; However, if they user types something new in the Edit control and then clicks on a value in the ListBox, the OnKillFocus event (of course) runs before OnSelChange.&nbsp; Say user types "Drain#X" in the Edit control, then clicks on "Drain#Y" in the ListBox...&nbsp; The user would expect for "Drain#Y" to be the current value but "Drain#X" is used instead.&nbsp; In fact, "Drain#X" (the typed value) stays in the Edit control; the ListBox control now has the focus but no value is currently selected (waving the mouse up and down as I test this on my desktop causes the list to scroll).</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>If I could check within the OnKillFocus event's code whether the listbox is the new active control, then I could probably stop the update process before it completes.&nbsp; But I don't see a way of doing this.&nbsp; I suppose I will have to use a work around, adding OnSetFocus events to all form controls except the listbox, with code to check whether the textbox value differs from the listbox.&nbsp; But that will be rather tedious and I'm hoping for a simpler solution.&nbsp; Any ideas?</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 May 2013 17:03:06 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcpad-questions/after-onkillfocus-event-determine-which-control/m-p/409414#M2983 SuzanneAngelo 2013-05-15T17:03:06Z