>Hey, thanks Sergey! So... basically _CUROBJ is going to be read-only when run by VFP9 engine. The code I'm contending with is an old fpw26 GET stack -- no form or objects. :-(

Are you sure there is no form? I'd guess Fox wouldn't reinvent get fields straight on the screen if it could just simulate them with textboxes... so maybe there's a form behind the scenes, just like a browse is actually a grid. Besides, if you create a form, activate it, and then start issuing your GETs, they get created inside that form (with form's fonts - try that).

If this manipulation you're doing is happening inside a valid(), then you can simply return the difference between current _curobj and the value you want... say, your current _curobj=4 and you want to jump to object 2 - well, return -2.

If it's not called from a valid, your option is to run your gets inside a form. I tried that (and aha! my hunch was correct), and Fox created a pageframe with one page, then a textbox for each get field. You can traverse these textboxes, looking for a given controlsource, to get a reference to your desired textbox (object reference, not number) and setfocus to it.

p.s. haven't found how does it get out of that READ... maybe you need to visit the last textbox and then tab out of it?