Skip Text Box LostFocus when Button is Pressed??

[Jason Gyetko]

I am running an event on LostFocus of a Text Box. My problem is that I have
a button, that when pressed (and the Text Box is the active field), should
issue it's event without calling the LostFocus event of the Text Box. Does
anyone know how I can do this? Thanks.

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

When the button is pressed, the text box has already ceased to be the active
control, and its LostFocus event has already fired.

There's probably an alternative solution to your problem. If you could
explain a little of the background, someone can probably help.

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[Jason Gyetko]

I have several different instances in my database that this would apply to.
The simplist being:

I have a text box that does error checking on LostFocus to make sure that
the field is not blank and that the value entered does exist in the
database. The only time I want to bypass this is when my "Exit" command
button is clicked. Right now it still prompts me with my message box saying
that the TextBox contains an invalid value. The user should not have to
enter a valid value just to be able to exit the form. Thanks.

 

[Brendan Reynolds]

Hi Jason,

Sorry about the delay in getting back to you, I was ill for a few days last
week.

Two techniques you can try are to check the form's Dirty property before
displaying any message, and do not display the message if no changes have
been made (the Dirty property is False) and/or display a warning message
telling the user about the potential problem, but don't prevent the user
from leaving the text box. You may need to test again in the BeforeUpdate
event, but you can put the code in a procedure that can be called from both
events, rather than repeating all the code in both event procedures.

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