Carlos:

Yes indeed! I don't understand why that works, but it does work as intended.

I thought I had read everything already in the thread, but obviously I missed your reply.

Nice to hear from you again.

Jim


>>This is an older topic ... SelectOnEntry only works when you tab into an editbox, but not when you click on it.
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>>The suggestion for the Click event below does indeed select on entry ... but, once this occurs, I would like to have it so that the next and all subsequent clicks do not select anything. Is this possible?
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>>>>I cannot get the numeric values in a textbox in a grid to select on entry if instead of tabbing to the textbox, the user uses the mouse. I am sure I have seen the answer to this before, but can't come up with it. Of cource I have selectonentry set to .t.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks in advance to the worlds fastest problem solving community
>>>>
>>>>Fred
>>>
>>>

>>>*Textbox::Click
>>>this.SelStart = 0
>>>this.SelLength = 50
>>>

>>>PS: 50 is an arbitrary value wide enough to cover all range, could be 999 or 9999 as well.
>>>Cetin
>
>Read my reply in this thread.