>I want the text in the textbox to be selected on entry. I have the grid Highlight property set to true, the column's SelectOnEntry property set to true and the textbox SelectOnEntry set to true, but FoxPro does not seem to care. I will not select the text.
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>I put KEYBOARD Ctrl-A in the GotFocus event and the reason it worked outside of the application is because the Edit menu was in effect. I remove the Edit menu from my app so Ctrl-A reverts to the old mulit-use numeric keypad behavior of performing a Backtab instead of Select All (Wordstar days).
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>I guess either have to find a way to instantiate a hidden menu to provide hot key support (Rick Strahl brought this up in another thread), or let it go.
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>But I'm open to any ideas that don't consume too much more time.
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>Thanks,
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>Pamela
Pam,
Try "this.setfocus()" in gotfocus.
Cetin