How to send focus to a text box of a VBA form during its initialization/activate event? - vba

Question

I have a VBA form in Corel. Behaving exactly like a similar one in Excel...
Initially, when the form initialize event used to contain only some lines of code, the simple ending line me.txtCsv.Setfocus used to send the focus on it. I mean, it appeared being in edit mode with the cursor blinking inside.
After a period of time, after the application became complex, I am not able to send the focus to the text box in discussion.
I know that Activate event goes last and I also have in it the line me.txtCsv.Setfocus. But without expected result. Inside the Initialization event code I inserted that line Debug.Print Me.ActiveControl.Name & " - 1", changing 1 in 2, 3 up to 6 in many places, including the last line and all the time the name of the text box in discussion (txtCsv) appears in Immediate Window.
So, the control in discussion is the activate one, but the cursor is not inside it when the form is loaded.
TabStop is set to True. I set the TabIndex to 0.
The control is enabled and not blocked. I have created a new simple form with three text boxes and it works well.
I mean the text box which I want to send the focus, has the focus when the form is loaded, keeping a similar code in its Initialize or Activate events.
I compared all properties of the two forms and all text box controls and they are the same...
When I send the focus from another control on the form, the text box in discussion receives it.
It does not receive the focus (anymore) only when the form is shown, the focus being sent by Initialize or Activate evens.
Events code:
Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
Me.txtCsv.SetFocus
End Sub
Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Dim P As Printer, i As Long, NrImp As Long, prDefault As String, strJustEngr As String
Dim Printers() As String, n As Long, s As String, boolFound As Boolean
Dim strEng As String, MEngr As Variant, m As Variant, el As Variant, defSize As String
Dim strDropbox As String
boolOpt = True: boolFound = False
Me.cbPrinters.Clear
If Me.chkNewStyle.Value = True Then boolNewStyle = True
prDefault = Application.Printers.Default.Name
strEng = GetSetting(ECA_K, ECA_set, ECA_Engr, "No settings...")
If strEng <> "No settings..." Then
boolSelectedEngravers = True ' only adding engraver is possible...
MEngr = Split(strEng, "|")
'Incarcare in combo:
Me.cbPrinters.Clear
For Each el In MEngr
m = Split(el, ":")
Me.cbPrinters.AddItem m(0)
If m(0) = prDefault Then
boolFound = True
defSize = m(1)
End If
Next
Me.cbPrinters.Value = Me.cbPrinters.List(0)
With Me.btChoosePrinters
.Caption = "Add an Engraver"
.ControlTipText = "Add another Engraver(must be installed)"
End With
Me.btEliminatePrinters.Enabled = True
Me.lblPrinters.Caption = "Engravers: "
Me.cbPrinters.ControlTipText = "Select Engraver to be used!"
Else
Printers = GetPrinterFullNames()
For n = LBound(Printers) To UBound(Printers)
Me.cbPrinters.AddItem Printers(n)
If Printers(n) = prDefault Then boolFound = True
Next n
boolSelectedEngravers = False
End If
Debug.Print Me.ActiveControl.Name & " - 1"
If boolFound Then
Me.cbPrinters.Value = prDefault
Else
Me.lblStatus.Caption = "The default printer (""" & prDefault & """) is not a laser Engraver..."
End If
If GetSetting(ECA_K, ECA_set, "LowRAM", "No settings...") <> "No settings..." Then
boolLowRAM = CBool(GetSetting(ECA_K, ECA_set, "LowRAM", "No settings..."))
End If
If boolLowRAM = True Then
Me.chkLowRAM.Value = True
Else
Me.chkLowRAM.Value = False
End If
Debug.Print Me.ActiveControl.Name & " - 2"
'Direct engrave setting:
Dim strDirectEngrave As String
strDirectEngrave = GetSetting(ECA_K, ECA_set, ECA_Direct_Engrave, "Nothing")
If strDirectEngrave <> "Nothing" Then
Me.chkDirectEngrave.Value = CBool(strDirectEngrave)
If CBool(strDirectEngrave) = True Then
boolDirectEngrave = True
Else
boolDirectEngrave = False
End If
End If
'_______________________________________
strJustEngr = GetSetting(ECA_K, ECA_set, ECA_Just_Engrave, "Nothing")
If strJustEngr <> "Nothing" Then
'Application.EventsEnabled = False
boolChangeEngr = True
Me.chkJustEngrave.Value = CBool(strJustEngr)
boolChangeEngr = False
'Application.EventsEnabled = True
If CBool(strJustEngr) = True Then
Me.chkDirectEngrave.Enabled = True
boolJustEngrave = True
Me.frLocFoldPath.Enabled = True
Else
Me.frLocFoldPath.Enabled = False
Me.chkDirectEngrave.Enabled = False
End If
End If
Debug.Print Me.ActiveControl.Name & " - 3"
If boolSelectedEngravers Then
Application.EventsEnabled = False
Me.btGo.ForeColor = RGB(45, 105, 7)
Me.txtCsv.BackColor = RGB(153, 255, 51)
Me.btGo.Enabled = False
Me.txtCsv.SetFocus
Application.EventsEnabled = True
End If
strDropbox = GetSetting(ECA_K, ECA_set, ECA_Dropbox, "No value")
If strDropbox <> "No value" Then
If CBool(strDropbox) = True Then
Me.chkDropbox.Value = True
End If
End If
AllRefresh
Me.chkCloseDoc.Value = True
Me.txtCsv.SetFocus
Debug.Print Me.ActiveControl.Name & " - 4"
End Sub
Private Sub AllRefresh()
Application.Optimization = False
Application.EventsEnabled = True
If Documents.Count > 0 Then
ActiveWindow.Refresh
ActiveDocument.PreserveSelection = True
End If
Application.Refresh
End Sub
Is there something else, crossing your mind, to be tested?
In the meantime I did some more tests, respectively:
I created a new project (.GMS file) and I imported the form in discussion.I started commenting all the Initialize event code, except the last two code lines.
It didn't set the focus! Commenting everything, letting only the Activate event code, it worked.
I started to un-comment lines in Initialize event code and I found a line not allowing the focus to be sent to that text box.
Setting the value of the combo: Me.cbPrinters.Value = Me.cbPrinters.List(0), moving it in the Activate event code, before the part pointing to txtCSV, worked well.
Now, I tried to do the same in the original form and it does not work...

Answer 1

The above question has been solved by Disabling followed by Enabling of the text box in discussion, but only doing that in Form Activate event. It did not work in Initialize event...
Private Sub UserForm_Activate()
Me.txtCsv.Disable: Me.txtCsv.Enable
Me.txtCsv.SetFocus
End Sub