>>The first workaround that comes to mind would be to get a reference to the object you are addressing - if it's some sort of a cell, >>and if you could get

>>oCells=control.Cells(lnHandle)

>>or something like that, i.e. something that would give you the object retrieved via the handle, and then you'd just address the cells >>inside that object without the need for three parameters. Analogously to having a reference to a range in Excel, and then going >>oRange.Cells(...) instead of oSheet.Range("some name").Cells(...), even though the latter works, even with more parameters, so I >>wouldn't say it's Fox. Though, Office may be a special case. Theoretically, it's possible that once upon a time the Office and the >>VFP teams were allowed to meet.

Thanks Dragan, I thought of that and asked the txText control guys, but they say no it's not possible. Also tried to see it there as an equivelant to ActiveCell but no joy.

They say there is no problem with VB or in .Net so unlikely they are going to help me further :-(


Gary.