Set the focus to the top of the form that has a tabcontrol

Hi

I have a form which consists of a tab control.

When users switch between tabs, I want to set the focus of the entire form
to the top of the form each time instead of where they let the form on their
previous visit.

Is this possible?

I tried to set the focus to the top of the form by using the following:

Me.StudentID.SetFocus

But it doesn't work. I'm not sure of where I should put the code. Is this
the right one to use or would something else be better?

I also read somewhere in one of the forums I can set the focus first to the
mainform by using

Forms![MainFormName].Set focus

But I can't figure out where it should go?

Thank you for your help in advance.

"but it doesn't work" doesn't give us much to go on.

Clearly, you understand that you set the focus to a control, not to the "top
of the form".

Is [StudentID] the name of your control, or the field underlying it?

Have you tried:

Me!StudentID.SetFocus (the "!" tells Access that the object is one YOU
created)

Are there subforms involved? Where are you trying to use that code?

More info, please...

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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Hi

I have a form which consists of a tab control.

When users switch between tabs, I want to set the focus of the entire form
to the top of the form each time instead of where they let the form on
their
previous visit.

Is this possible?

I tried to set the focus to the top of the form by using the following:

Me.StudentID.SetFocus

But it doesn't work. I'm not sure of where I should put the code. Is this
the right one to use or would something else be better?

I also read somewhere in one of the forums I can set the focus first to
the
mainform by using

Forms![MainFormName].Set focus

But I can't figure out where it should go?

Thank you for your help in advance.

You should be able to set the focus in the Change event of the tab control,
assuming there is a text box or other control to receive the focus at the top
of the form. Your code should work if there is a text box named StudentID.
If it is the name of both the field and the text box I would change the text
box name to something like txtStudentID, but it isn't absolutely necessary to
do that.

It gets a little more complicated if you wish to set the focus to a different
text box on each tab page. You could do something like this in the tab
control's Change event (assuming the tab control is named tabMain:

Select Case Me.tabMain.Pages.Item(Me.tabMain.Value).Caption
Case "FirstTab"
Me.Text1.SetFocus
Case "Second Tab"
Me.Text2.SetFocus
End Select

Me.tabMain.Value gives you the index number of the tab page. They are
numbered starting at 0. If you click on the first tab, Access will insert 0
into the expression, so it is the same as if you wrote:

Select Case Me.tabMain.Pages.Item(0).Caption

If you click on the second tab, it is the same as:

Select Case Me.tabMain.Pages.Item(1).Caption

By using Me.tabMain.Value to fetch the number, you will return the caption of
whatever tab you click.

You could simplify the expression and just use the index number:

Select Case Me.tabMain.Value
Case 0
Me.Text1.SetFocus
etc.

However, using the caption may make it easier to folow the code as you write
it, and especially when you look at it later.

forest8 wrote:
Hi

I have a form which consists of a tab control.

When users switch between tabs, I want to set the focus of the entire form
to the top of the form each time instead of where they let the form on their
previous visit.

Is this possible?

I tried to set the focus to the top of the form by using the following:

Me.StudentID.SetFocus

But it doesn't work. I'm not sure of where I should put the code. Is this
the right one to use or would something else be better?

I also read somewhere in one of the forums I can set the focus first to the
mainform by using

Forms![MainFormName].Set focus

But I can't figure out where it should go?

Thank you for your help in advance.

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