Fred,
You're thinking the same thing I was. I created a simple form to test this, however, and it works fine - I can enter any # of chars. What I did was create a new, blank form and added one text box and one commandbutton. In the click event of the button, I put "thisform.text1.value=''". After clicking it, I can still go to the text box and enter in anything. AUGH! I'm sure I've dealt with this before - it must be dependent on other settings/environment datatypes, etc...
Can you help me?

Mark

>>Mark,
>>The Text Boxes aren't bound to anything (Control Source=NONE). I'm clearing them out by issuing thisform.text1.value=''
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>>Tom
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>>>Tom,
>>>Are the textboxes bound to a var or field? How are you "clear"ing them out - I'm thinking the values are getting nulled...
>>>
>>>Mark
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>>>>I have a VFP 5.0 application in which you input data into Text Boxes. In certain situations, in order to process the information, the app calls a VB 5.0 applicaiton. The app then clears out the Text Boxes, resets and runs again for the next processing.
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>>>>The problem is when it returns from the VB application and the text boxes are cleared out, the cursor is blinking inside the Text Box but I can't enter anything in them. The radial buttons, and command buttons still work, but I can't input anything from the keyboard. When I don't have to go to the VB application, everything works great.
>>>>
>>>>I bumped up the RAM on the machines but that didn't phase it. Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>TIA
>>>>
>>>>Tom Harker
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>Since you now have made this a zero length field, you can't see anything. Blank the fields by putting in the correct number of spaces.