On Jul 21, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Steve Crossman wrote: > how can i obtain the appearance button _kControlEditTextProc that > has current focus? > > If I set focus to a button that already has focus, it becomes > deactivated ! ? Thought FN GetKeyboardFocus might be helpful and found RP's example in his source title Search Apple Headers v2.5 in ** Donations **==>RP's Favorite examples==>OS X folder on the FB4 version 2 examples folder. Involves installation of of an event handler. HTH....Brian