>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

Jim,

Any particular reason why you are fighting with a listbox? In my opinion the UI effect you are after can be done in a grid easily with dynamiccolour()


Regards,

Koen