How do I get "is focused" from text boxes?

I have been staring at my screen for a few hours now in disbelief at how enormously nonsensical the whole situation with text boxes is.

First I found they steal mouse clicks, making an instance variable based "is focused" system totally impossible.

Then I found they don't just steal focus for themselves, they steal focus for OTHER TEXT BOXES. So not even my ridiculous workaround that I thought would work, did.

I really, really want to know. Is it actually possible, let alone plausible that one could ever find whether a text box is focused or not?

Because seriously, it seems it would involve literal wizardry.

Thank you, so goddamn much if you have anything whatsoever to help in my quest.

TEXT BOXES NEED A GODDAMN "focus" BOOLEAN VARIABLE. NAO!

/frustration

What do you mean by steal focus?

TextBox_Focus.capx

TextBox focus is possible.

Frustration does not help.

Kyatric

Thank you so much for the example.

I ended up doing a similar workaround to yours.