>>I have a disabled textbox on a form. When i click
>>on a command button I enable the textbox and then do
>>a setfocus() to that textbox. All that works but
>>I also would like the textbox to have its contents
>>already selected.
>>
>>I have tried the following measures but to no avail:
>>
>>textbox.Format = 'K'
>>
>>textbox.When
>> This.sellength = 7
>> this.selstart = 0
>>
>>How can I get the textbox to highlight its contents
>>when it is enabled and the focus has changed to that
>>object?
>
>As a last resort, you can always do a Keyboard"{Ctrl+A}" in the gotfocus...

Oops (good name eh?), I now see the problem I created. The
textbox was disabled but I set focus to it before enabling it.

My mistake! Now it works as it should with just a Format = "K"...
Do not even need selectonentry = .T.