>>I have a listbox.
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>>I want to preselect items in the listbox in the Init method of my form. the MultiSelect property is .T.
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>>I populate the listbox with a cursor, and then set individual Selected(i) = .T., for one or more entries.
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>>This appears to actually cause those items to be selected, but the selections lack the blue highlighting.
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>>When the user then clicks on items, the items clicked on do highlight.
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>>How do I get the programmatically selected items to appear highlighted.
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>>Thanks,
>>Jim
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>Try doing it after the form is activated.

Naomi,

Thanks for your suggestion. I just moved the code that selects items in the listbox into the Activate method.

Same result: items are selected, but they are not highlighted.

Jim