Setting Keyboard Focus

The keyboard focus defines which gadget will receive keystrokes. The FORM object has as one of its properties the name of the gadget which will initially have the keyboard focus. This default keyboard focus can be changed by setting the keyboardfocus member of the form:

!!MyForm.keyboardfocus = !!Myform.gadget

The keyboard focus can be moved at any time to one of the following types of gadget by calling the setfocus() method on the target gadget:

• TEXT

• TEXTPANE

• BUTTON

• TOGGLE

• RTOGGLE

• SLIDER

• LIST

• SELECTOR

• OPTION

• ALPHA VIEW

For example:

!!MyForm.Textfield.Setfocus()