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WhiskyRomeo - 03 Jan 2005 15:57 GMT

I have a message box that pops up when there is a problem after a user
clicks on a button.

After the user clicks OK on the message box, I need the focus to return to a
different control (a textbox). Intuitively, you would think the line
MyTextbox.Focus after the MessageBox.Show line would do the the trick.
Howerver, focus always returns to the control that initiated the show method.
Any focus method after that is ignored.

Can anyone tell me how to overide this behaviour?

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Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP] - 03 Jan 2005 16:16 GMT

I am unable to reproduce it. Try this using C# 2003: a form with a treeview
and a button, and this code:

private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("Hi");
treeView1.Focus();
}

It works as expected, the focus goes to the treeview.

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> I have a message box that pops up when there is a problem after a user
> clicks on a button.
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>
> Can anyone tell me how to overide this behaviour?

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 03 Jan 2005 17:36 GMT

"WhiskyRomeo" <WhiskyRomeo@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

> I have a message box that pops up when there is a problem after a user
> clicks on a button.
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> method.
> Any focus method after that is ignored.

I am not able to repro that in VB.NET 2002 using 'MsgBox' or
'MessageBox.Show'.

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WhiskyRomeo - 04 Jan 2005 23:39 GMT

Thanks for the replies. At least this allows me to look elsewhere for the
problem.

Bill

> I have a message box that pops up when there is a problem after a user
> clicks on a button.
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> Can anyone tell me how to overide this behaviour?

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