how to test if a particular control has focus?

Question

i have access 2007 form and i want to test if a particular control (toggle button) has the focus ,

something like :

if gotfocus(mytoggle) then
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Answer 1

This for the current form:

If (mytoggle Is Me.ActiveControl) Then

This for the current Access.Application:

If (mytoggle Is Screen.ActiveControl) Then

Be careful, if no control has focus, *.ActiveControl may not exist.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, there are situations where the .ActiveControl is temporary non-existing ! When records are scrolled in a form, the procedure Form_Current() gets run. Already at the beginning, there is no focus anymore – the focus is reset to the previous field only after Form_Current() has terminated.