Setting+the+focus+in+a+dialogue+box

//by Richard Russell, May 2010//

If you want to initialise a dialogue box so that the input **focus** is on a particular control, simply make that control the first in the template (i.e. the first to be created after calling [|FN_newdialog]). By default the first control always gains the initial focus.

However if you want to **move** the input focus to a different control, once the dialogue box has been opened, you should do that using the following code: code format="bb4w" WM_NEXTDLGCTL = 40 SYS "GetDlgItem", !dlg%, id% TO hdlgctl% SYS "PostMessage", !dlg%, WM_NEXTDLGCTL, hdlgctl%, 1 code where **dlg%** is the value returned from **FN_newdialog** and **id%** is the ID of the control that you want to receive the input focus.