Sergey,
Thanks for the reference. I made it work using the editor functions in FoxTools.

Thanks also Christof, Craig and Naomi.

Gary

>Check http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/copy-command-window-selected-text-clipboard-programmatically and http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/copy-prg-contents-clipboard
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>>I'm playing with a builder and I'm trying to figure out how to determine the currently being edited method in a VCX.
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>>I basically want to copy all the method code to _cliptext, dink with it and replace the method code with the new and hopefully improved code.
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>>KEYBOARDing ctrl+a, ctrl+c seems to erase the method code, which I'd rather not do if possible. I was thinking some readmethod() and writemethod() might work, but I don't know how to get the name of the method programmatically.
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>>Any ideas?
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>>Gary