>>Hello Gurus!
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>>Problem today..........
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>>I have a textbox where I input text.... the text is used to filter a grid in realtime on the form....
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>>but... the user can TAB out of the textbox and tab to other controls, and THEN tab back into the textbox.
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>>The Text is now HIGHLIGHTED and SELECTED. When the user types into the textbox, the text disappears and is replaced with NEW text.
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>>I wanted the new text to append to the end of what text was already in the textbox.
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>>Is there a property to set this?
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>>Thanks!
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>To append text add this to the WHEN of the textbox:
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>This.SelStart = LEN(ALLTRIM(this.Value))

Bernard,

Shouldn't that be

This.SelStart = LEN(TRIM(This.Value)) + 1

to account for blank spaces at the start of the text and to avoid overwriting the last letter or the text?

Regards,