onGotFocus

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Event fired when a component gains focus.

Parameters

none

Property of

Form and all form components that get focus

Description

onGotFocus fires whenever the form or component gains focus.

The firing order for Events when opening a form:

1. The form's open( ) method is called

• The when event for each control is fired according to the z-order

• The form's onOpen event is fired

• The onOpen event for each control is fired according to the z-order

The firing order for Form object Events:

Clicking on a form object will result in the following events firing in this order;

2. The when event

• The onGotFocus event

• A mouse event such as, onLeftDblClick

Navigating to a form object by using the Tab key will result in the following events firing in this order;

3. The when event

• The onGotFocus event

Tip: ON KEY LABEL TAB <command> will perform an action (<command>) when the user presses the TAB key (See ON KEY). However, even though ON KEY LABEL TAB is set to perform <command>, pressing Shift-Tab will still move to another form object (the preceding one in the z-order) and fire it's events in the above order.