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set focus a component on my activeform after create

How can i set the focus to one of my components on my activeform after opening the html page and creating the activeform without user intervention ???
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This doesn't work !! The focus is still outside my activeform
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I tried to duplicate your problem and my first suggestion didn't work (setting ActiveControl property at design time).  However, the second suggestion did work.  I published a method FormFocus similar to

procedure TActiveForm.FormFocus;
begin
     SetFocus;
     Edit1.SetFocus;
end;

I then called this from a javascript acting on the OnLoad event like this

<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" FOR="window" EVENT="onLoad()">
<!--
MyActiveForm.FormFocus()

//-->
    </script>

I used IE 4.01 and Delphi 3.  My OLEMISC tags on TActiveFormFactory.Create were ACTIVATEWHENVISIBLE.  One other thing to think about is that any activity after the call my change focus from where you set it.  Hope this helps!
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Can you please send me the whole description of your html page.
I'm not so familar with javascript, so i do the test but it doesn't work
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Here it is!  The important part is the object declaration for the active form object and the javascript.  The object ID is the name you make up to label your active form. That way you can call to it in Javascript.  I labeled mine StatWeb.  "window" is the constant term for the page you are working with so that will always be the same.  Hope this helps out!


<html>

<head><script LANGUAGE="JavaScript" FOR="window" EVENT="onLoad()">
<!--
StatWeb.FormFocus()

//-->
    </script>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>Status</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 3.0">


<meta name="Microsoft Theme" content="safari 111"><meta name="Microsoft Border" content="t"></head>

<body background="_themes/safari/saftextr.jpg" bgcolor="#000000" text="#CCCC99" link="#CC9900" vlink="#996600" alink="#FF3300"><!--msnavigation--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td><!--mstheme--><font face="trebuchet ms, arial, helvetica">

<p align="center"><br>
<img src="_derived/Status.htm_cmp_safari110_bnr.gif" width="600" height="60" border="0" alt="Status"></p>

<p align="center"><script language="JavaScript"><!--
MSFPhover =
  (((navigator.appName == "Netscape") && 
  (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 3 )) ||
  ((navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") && 
  (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4 )));
function MSFPpreload(img)
{
  var a=new Image(); a.src=img; return a;
}
// --></script><script language="JavaScript"><!--
if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav1n=MSFPpreload('_derived/home_cmp_safari110_hbtn.gif'); MSFPnav1h=MSFPpreload('_derived/home_cmp_safari110_hbtn_a.gif'); }
// --></script><a href="./" onmouseover="if(MSFPhover) document['MSFPnav1'].src=MSFPnav1h.src" onmouseout="if(MSFPhover) document['MSFPnav1'].src=MSFPnav1n.src"><img src="_derived/home_cmp_safari110_hbtn.gif" width="140" height="60" border="0" alt="Home" align="middle" name="MSFPnav1"></a></p>

<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<!--mstheme--></font></td></tr><!--msnavigation--></table><!--msnavigation--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><!--msnavigation--><td valign="top"><!--mstheme--><font face="trebuchet ms, arial, helvetica">

<p align="center"><script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
    </script>
<object ID="StatWeb" WIDTH="464" HEIGHT="712" align="center" hspace="0" vspace="0" CLASSID="CLSID:30831D6F-C985-11D1-9C9C-0060B0A11A32" CODEBASE="http://mtdmalan/newhire/XStatus.ocx#version=1,0,0,0">
</object>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msnavigation--></td></tr><!--msnavigation--></table></body>
</html>