# Request Focus

**URL:** <https://forum.servoy.com/t/request-focus/873>\
**Category:** Classic Servoy\
**Created:** [December 17, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/request-focus/873 "2003-12-17T20:59:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Ron](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Ron)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/request-focus/873/1 "2003-12-17T20:59:25Z")

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I use a formInDialog as a pop up window for my searches.  
To call the Dialog I made a simple method with the formInDialog command followed by the RequestFocus command to let the cursur start in the search field.  
However the Request Focus does’nt work.  
(BTW I know how to get the RF working in a form)  
Am I missing something?

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**Author:** ![IT2Be](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dc4da7/32.png) [@IT2Be](https://forum.servoy.com/u/IT2Be)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/request-focus/873/2 "2003-12-17T21:35:47Z")

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Don’t know if you miss something, maybe I do too ![:lol:]( "Laughing")

But why don’t you request focus via a method triggered by the onShowForm event?

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**Author:** ![Ron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Ron](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Ron)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/request-focus/873/3 "2003-12-18T16:50:34Z")

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Good ID Marcel, I should have thought about that myself.  
Thx.

Regards,

Ron