=====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 [[http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwing.html#newdialog|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 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.