All well and good ... but for the single editbox that this applies to, 99.99% of the time when the user clicks on it, they will want the entire contents selected so that they can replace it.

If the user wants to edit the text there (most unlikely), they can click again where they want the cursor.



>That doesn't mean we should break the standard. What most people forget is that Microsoft is not a big shark. It's a bunch of piranhas. One team doesn't always follow what another does, but that doesn't mean the team not following the standards is right. It means they haven't paid attention to details.
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>If you change the text box to SelectOnEntry when you click, it will be harder for the user to position the cursor to edit the text.
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>>So what? MS breakes their own standrds all the time.