Which TextBox control has focus?

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DiverDan

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First, I'd like to thank all these people for their time and patience in helping us newbies.

I have a form with many textboxes. I'd like to know which form has focus so that Cut, Copy, Paste can work on it. And I can't understand how to find which textbox has focus.
 
Use
Visual Basic: 
Me.ActiveControl
to return the currently active control
on a form.
 
Ok...I got the paste command;
If Clipboard.GetDataObject.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text) Then
Me.ActiveControl.Text = Me.ActiveControl.Text & Clipboard.GetDataObject.GetData(DataFormats.Text)
End If

But I'm having a bit of a problem with the copy and cut commands...Please Help!
 
I think Textboxes have proper clipboard commands:

Visual Basic: 
DirectCast(Me.ActiveControl, TextBox).Cut()
 
Cut:
DirectCast(Me.ActiveControl, TextBox).Cut()

Copy:
DirectCast(Me.ActiveControl, TextBox).Copy()

Paste:
If Clipboard.GetDataObject.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text) Then
DirectCast(Me.ActiveControl, TextBox).Paste()

It doesn't get any simplier...Thanks again divil!!!
 
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