Why can't you put the initial test in a read-only editbox (or label) and add a second updatable editbox bellow it?

>An Edit Box on my form is programatically auto-populated with some text prior to getting focus.
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>I need to be able to allow the user to append text in the edit box, but not delete or modify the initial text. I cannot figure out how to accomplish this. Any code I place in the Keypress event method or the InteractiveChange event method seems to be ignored.
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>Anyone????