>>>>>How about disabling the timer in textbox.GotFocus and enabling it back in LostFocus ?
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>>>>I wish I could, but that form is a primary form of about 10 forms that are always up and visible and active. That textbox is a key control that should always have focus if the user is not typing in another control on another form. Focus is always on that control and if I do that, the timer will never run on my form.
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>>>You can also try to remember the current SetLength of the textbox and try to restore it.
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>>I did :( to no avail. that is already being done in the gotfocus of that textbox. I set a form prop on my form (plRefreshing) that when .t. I return false from the when of the grids and the nodefault in the click, dblclick, and activate, and gotfocus of my form (and everyplace on the grids I could think of) but focus still jumps off of the textbox on the other form and back again.
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>I'm just thinking - may be we can put grids into container and then instead of refreshing the grids, refresh this container?

Thanks. I'll try it....