ActiveControl Property

You can use the ActiveControl property together with the Screen object to identify or refer to the control that has the focus. Read-only Control object.

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Setting

This property setting contains a reference to the Control object that has the focus at run time.

This property is available by using a macro or Visual Basic and is read-only in all views.

Remarks

You can use the ActiveControl property to refer to the control that has the focus at run time together with one of its properties or methods. The following example assigns the name of the control with the focus to the strControlName variable.

Dim ctlCurrentControl As Control
Dim strControlName As String
Set ctlCurrentControl = Screen.ActiveControl
strControlName = ctlCurrentControl.Name

If no control has the focus when you use the ActiveControl property, or if all of the active form's controls are hidden or disabled, an error occurs.

Example

The following example assigns the active control to the ctlCurrentControl variable and then takes different actions depending on the value of the control's Name property.

Dim ctlCurrentControl As Control

Set ctlCurrentControl = Screen.ActiveControl
If ctlCurrentControl.Name = "txtCustomerID" Then
    .
    . ' Do something here.
    .
ElseIf ctlCurrentControl.Name = "btnCustomerDetails" Then
    .
    . ' Do something here.
    .
End If