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The **FocusLossAction **property indicates the action to take with regard to pending changes when the edit control loses focus during an edit-in-place process.

The specified action is implemented by the Ask method. Set the action by assigning, adding, or subtracting one of the following EQUATEd values to FocusLossAction. The following EQUATEs are in ABBROWSE.INC:

**      ITEMIZE,PRE(EIPAction)**

**Default   EQUATE(0)       !save according to the Ask method**

**Always    EQUATE(1)       !always save the changes**

**Never     EQUATE(2)       !never save the changes**

**Prompted  EQUATE(4)       !ask whether to save the changes**

**      END**

**Example:**

**BRW1.FocusLossAction = EIPAction:Prompted     !ask to save changes**

**See Also:**     [[ask  update selected browse item .htm|Ask]]