You're right. I should just forget about the Win32::GUI->GetMessage().

I took another look at the problem after reading your post. The main difference is that if the focus is going to a combobox by the user pressing the TAB key or clicking in the textbox portion of the combobox the the handle is that of the textbox portion where GotFocus() returns the handle of the combobox. If the user clicks the arrow to dropdown the combobox list, the GotFocus idea works flawlessly.

So how do I get the handles of both the textbox and the dropdown portions of a combobox?

In reply to Re^2: Win32 - Where will the focus go? by ChrisR
in thread Win32 - Where will the focus go? by ChrisR

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