If I understood well, try the following : Suppose your "Cancel" button is named "Button25" and your form "Form1". At your form's OnShow event, simply add : Form1.Button25.SetFocus; That's it.
I don't think that it's logical to have the focus at Button1 and when you click it to call another buttons OnClick event. Regards, Dimitris Botsis Victor Fraenckel wrote: > I am new to the list. I have used Delphi 7 since its arrival and before > that I used Delphi 4 and have been a Pascal programmer since before Turbo 3. > > I have had a plaguing problem for a long time. It goes like this: > > Say I have a form that contains several text boxes and several buttons. > The text boxes are at the beginning of the tab order and the form opens > with the first text box having the focus. The last button in the tab > order is a cancel button. With the focus in the first text box how can > the user just click on the cancel button and have the action attached to > the buttons OnClick event triggered? I would like to not have to tab > through the tab order to get to the cancel button. Is there a way to do > this? > > Any enlightenment will be appreciated. > > Vic
