How to set the focus on a control ?

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From: Thomas Bednarz
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 00:00

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How can I set the focus on a control? I have a dialog which has as first
control a NON-EDITABLE text field. This field is allways highlited and
has the focus when the dialog is displayed. Next is a combo box which
SHOULD have the focus and the first item should be selected. I tried the
following function calls but none of them where successful:

MyCombo.requestFocus();
MyCombo.requestDefaultFocus();

Do I need to call something else after calling one of the above
functions? Users are about to kill me, because they always have to hit
the tab key before they can start their selection in the combobox.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thomas

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Date: 2000/11/08
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