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Wan
Hi,
I have a small test project consists of two simple forms. The main
form contains a datagrid and upon doubleclick event of grid I bring up
a detail form that contains few controls, drop-down, textboxes &
button. if I double click the second time, detail form shows up again
- so far so good. Here is the problem - if I go back to the first
instance of detail form and try to click on add button then the focus
goes back to second instance of detail form. I would like to open
multiple instances of detail form for data comparison purposes. Is it
possible to keep the focus on the same selected form?

-- double click event
Dim frmD as new frmDetail
frmD.show

Feb 15 '07 #1
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You can tell your app to focus on the first instance.

MyControl.Focus (MyFirstInstanc eControl)

Or if you dynamically add the controls...

MyControl.Focus (MyControl.Cont rols(0))

Hope this helps.
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Hi,
I have a small test project consists of two simple forms. The main
form contains a datagrid and upon doubleclick event of grid I bring up
a detail form that contains few controls, drop-down, textboxes &
button. if I double click the second time, detail form shows up again
- so far so good. Here is the problem - if I go back to the first
instance of detail form and try to click on add button then the focus
goes back to second instance of detail form. I would like to open
multiple instances of detail form for data comparison purposes. Is it
possible to keep the focus on the same selected form?

-- double click event
Dim frmD as new frmDetail
frmD.show
Feb 16 '07 #2

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