Menus cause main panel to get click events instead of text controls

[Cordilow]

I've noticed that when a menu or status bar is present, the main panel gets the focus rather than text controls, if I click on the text controls.  How do I let them take the focus instead?

This isn't a problem if there is no menu or status bar.

[Cordilow]

I found that doing the following fixes this issue:
panelName.Enable(False)