Focus Problem

[Abhijeet Pathak]

I've a MFC dialog with two edit boxes... By default focus in on first text box. I want that during dialog load if first edit box contains some text, then second edit box should have focus... I've tried SetFocus() in InitDialog() but it's not working... focus still remains on first control. How should I do it? Please Help!

[chandu004]

make sure that Set focus() is the last statement in the init dialog. if it is so, just post a sample of your init dialog code, i shall solve it

[Nishad S]

You have to return FALSE from OnInitDialog if you need to set the focus to a particular control by yourself.

- NS -

[Mark Salsbery]

In addition to what NS17 stated, you should also use GotoDlgCtrl() instead of SetFocus() when setting the focus to edit controls. Mark

Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:

[Gary R Wheeler]

If you change the focus in OnInitDialog() to something other than the first control, make sure that your OnInitDialog() handler returns FALSE. If it returns TRUE, the default Window handler sets the focus for you, overriding anything you did.

---

Software Zen: delete this;

Fold With Us![^]