Form Losing Focus

[The Beginner]

Hi,

I have two forms in an application. One is he background and then I show another keypad form called with the show() method (not showDialog) because I need to perform some validations on btn click.

The kepad has 10 buttons and an Enter Button. The problem is that the form keeps loosing focus (I checked this with a messagebox which keeps poping up once for focus=true and again for focus=false, it continuously keeps losing and gaining focus) so it does not process any keypress events untill i click somewhere on the form. I tried using me.focus() in form load event but to no avail. The forms TopMost property is also set to true.

Any suggestions...!

 

[Hack]

It isn't losing focus by itself...something else is grabbing the focus.

When your form loses focus, what becomes the topmost screen?

 

[compguru910]

I agree with Hack, when a form is loaded with the show method, it automatically gets focus. There must be something on your first form that is running and grabbing focus. Do you have a timer on it, or a backgroundworker?

 

[The Beginner]

No, the calling form is just a blue background sceen and with no timer. Actually, it only calls and shows this form. But still I will check who gets the control when this form looses focus. I'll get back to you then...
Thanx

 

[compguru910]

Are you calling the form by actually loading the form like this
frmKeypad.Show()
Or are you instantiating it like so
Using fKeypad As New frmKeypad
fKeypad.Show()
End Using

If so, from what I have experienced, you have to use ShowDialog because it calls it until the funciton says it loaded fine and closes. You can still do some validations with the second form using the showdialog, its just a little more complicated.

 

[The Beginner]

Yeh! I did it using showDialog() and so its working f9 now.
Thanx both for your time.