# Script dialog's focused control?

**URL:** https://resource.dopus.com/t/script-dialogs-focused-control/54785
**Category:** Help & Support
**Tags:** script
**Created:** [March 4, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/script-dialogs-focused-control/54785 "2025-03-04T13:59:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![MartO](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/marto/32/54727_2.png) [@MartO](https://resource.dopus.com/u/MartO)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/script-dialogs-focused-control/54785/1 "2025-03-04T13:59:05Z")

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As the title says: How do I find a script dialog's currently focused control?

It's obviously possible to query each individual control for their focused state but that seems rather cumbersome. Is there any other way, something like `dlg.GetFocusControl()` or a `dlg.Controls` Vector to enumerate?

Thanks a lot!

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### Author: ![Jon](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/jon/32/12713_2.png) [@Jon](https://resource.dopus.com/u/Jon)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/script-dialogs-focused-control/54785/2 "2025-03-05T00:03:25Z")

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Currently no, there's no way to do this other than keeping track of the focus yourself in the message loop. But we'll add a Dialog.GetFocus() method for this in the next update.

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### Author: ![MartO](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/marto/32/54727_2.png) [@MartO](https://resource.dopus.com/u/MartO)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2025, 1:19pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/script-dialogs-focused-control/54785/3 "2025-03-05T13:19:18Z")

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Much appreciated, thank you!

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### Author: ![MartO](https://resource.dopus.com/user_avatar/resource.dopus.com/marto/32/54727_2.png) [@MartO](https://resource.dopus.com/u/MartO)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://resource.dopus.com/t/script-dialogs-focused-control/54785/4 "2025-03-11T13:50:32Z")

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Works perfectly in [13.13.8 beta](https://resource.dopus.com/t/directory-opus-13-13-8-beta/54857) - thank you!
