VB Controls, Textbox lostfocus event

Textbox lostfocus event

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Gennie Marasiga #1 / 3	Textbox lostfocus event Hello. I am using the lostfocus events of the text boxes on my form for validation purposes. It turns out that if you click on another control like a command button or a combo box, thereby losing focus on the text box, the click event of that other control is not triggered and it only goes through the lostfocus event of the textbox. I've also found that if I click on the toolbar of the same form, it does go through the buttonclick event of my toolbar but does not go through the lostfocus event of the textbox. I need both event to be performed. Help!!! Gennie Marasigan
Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Peter Beac #2 / 3	Textbox lostfocus event Gennie, I think you may need to give more details. For me, using a form with one text box and one command button (VB5) it works as expected - the lost focus event firing and then the click event. With a combo box it also appears to work, although the click event on a combo box is fired when an item is selected in the list, not when it gets the focus via a mouse click. To trap on that event you need to trap on the GotFocus event. Regarding the toolbar, I think you will find that the toolbar cannot take the focus, and thus the focus is left on the text box and the LostFocus event is not triggered. This can easily be gotten around by having the toolbar explicitly call the LostFocus event as in Text1_LostFocus. If you don't know what text box has the focus, there are several strategies you could consider. Probably the easiest one arises if there is a text box that you can safely switch focus to (i.e. one that doesn't have any validation). Assume it is called Text2. You can then proceed as follows: Private Sub Toolbar1_ButtonClick(ByVal Button As ComctlLib.Button) Dim c As Control Set c = Me.ActiveControl Text2.SetFocus ' Triggers the lost focus event of active control c.SetFocus Set c = Nothing ' Your code End Sub HTH Peter Quote: >Hello. I am using the lostfocus events of the text boxes on my form for >validation purposes. It turns out that if you click on another control like >a command button or a combo box, thereby losing focus on the text box, the >click event of that other control is not triggered and it only goes through >the lostfocus event of the textbox. I've also found that if I click on the >toolbar of the same form, it does go through the buttonclick event of my >toolbar but does not go through the lostfocus event of the textbox. >I need both event to be performed. Help!!! >Gennie Marasigan
Wed, 28 Feb 2001 03:00:00 GMT

Bertie Wooste #3 / 3	Textbox lostfocus event Gennie, a) No combobox click -- I suspect you are showing a MsgBox in the textbox Lostfocus event? This swallows unprocessed Windows messages, so you lose the click which caused the focus to be lost. b) Toolbars are like menus -- they shouldn't get focus, and therefore they shouldn't take it from the control which had focus at the time. Advice: You should try to avoid using the LostFocus event if you possibly can. Do your validation at the form level rather than the individual field level. Use the Change event of the textbox (or similar events in other controls) to enable and disable dependent controls. If you are able to move to VB6, this provides a new mechanism, including a Validate event, to avoid some of the problems you have found. Bertie Quote: >Hello. I am using the lostfocus events of the text boxes on my form for >validation purposes. It turns out that if you click on another control like >a command button or a combo box, thereby losing focus on the text box, the >click event of that other control is not triggered and it only goes through >the lostfocus event of the textbox. I've also found that if I click on the >toolbar of the same form, it does go through the buttonclick event of my >toolbar but does not go through the lostfocus event of the textbox. >I need both event to be performed. Help!!!
Fri, 02 Mar 2001 03:00:00 GMT

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