How do I place the cursor in a field programmatically?

In my application I have a sub-VI that pops up for user input. The field that the user has to fill in does not have the cursor in it by default. I would like the sub-VI to pop up with the cursor in the field that the user has to fill in. Is there a way to do that programmatically? Thanks for the help.

That did it. I was looking too deep for this one for it to be that simple. Thanks again for the help.

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