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>>Here I go again with 'other way round' suggestion. The textbox/editbox should pass itself as a parameter, and the job of saving/restoring the .selstart could be done in the foreign character form itself. This way we may make it general enough and not have to add the feature to all the textbox/editbbox classes where we may want to use it. See the other thread (copy & paste programmatically), I've had some idea there of how to do it.
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>Dragan,
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>The problem with that approach is that wehn teh other forms gets focus the editbox textbox has already reset its selstart property. The saving has to occur before the control loses focus.

First I said "oh sh*" (not loudly) and then... then I thought the saving may be done while the other form still didn't pop up - i.e. in its init. Would need some fiddling, but generally I think the editbox shouldn't have lost focus before the object it creates instantiates; when it gets back it restores focus to the calling box, restores the .selstart, inserts the text into the .seltext... I've written this down to try these days. Could work.