Hi all

on a form, I've got a textbox that feeds a listbox, and I'd like to have focus remain in this textbox until the user leaves it blank.

Here's the code from the lostfocus event

if empty(this.value)
  return
endif  

sele Ther
seek alltrim(this.value)
if !found()
  wait window "Staff Code Not Found"
else
  ThisForm.LstStaff.AddListItem(alltrim(Ther.fname) + ' ' + alltrim(Ther.lname) + iif(empty(Ther.title),'',' ' + Ther.title))
  thisform.lststaff.addlistitem(Ther.thid, thisform.lstStaff.NewItemID,2)
  Thisform.lststaff.numberofelements = Thisform.lststaff.numberofelements + 1
endif    
this.value = ''
return -1

The "return -1" replaced the "this.setfocus()" call that didn't work either

what simple, gads-I'm-gonna-feel-14-kinds-of-stupid thing am I missing?