>>>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?
>>
>>this.SelectOnEntry = .T.
>
>I failed to mention earlier that I also have selectonentry = .T. for
>the textbox. Still does NOT work...
Works for me in VFP 6.0. How are you populating the data in the text box?
Michael McLain