Doug, Yes, I think I've done this several times, but I appreciate your help, and I don't mind doing it again.
yes, it's the list view which Jeff and I cannot set focus to. yes, it's the list view I want. yes, I've verified there is only one list view in a windows explorer window, and it's the one I want, the list of files. aside from my script, you can see this issue by doing what I laid out before using Jamal's focus control script. go to a windows explorer window. set the focus to be any control other than the list view. press the ins-f9 hot key for focus control script. it will bring up a list of focusable controls in the active window. when I choose the list view from this list, I get an error, which replicates the error I am getting from my own "real" script, and from the "test" example script. all of these scripts are unable to set the focus to the list view control. in my example script I needed to move focus away from the list view, so I could show a failure setting focus back to it. I simply did not understand what you did when you ran with that and said it was the problem; I think you said I could not just choose any control; it might not work? so, I'm suggesting you do this part manually with my script by commenting out the line which calls "setfocustosomethingelse", and manually choosing some other control in the windows explorer window, alt-tabbing away, and alt-tabbing back to the windows explorer window. my test script will then try to set the list view control focus, and for me, will fail. Does this help? thanks again, Chip
