Hi Gerard.

> I want to be able to highlight Mandatory and current field in focus,in some way, maybe using colours... but if a field is mandatory and has focus.. waht do i fo.. maybe use some other criteria.
>Also, How would I go about doing this.
>
The easiest way to do this is to add a property to your text box class. If you only want to deal with mandatory fields, you could make it a logical flag. But a more flexible way would be to add a 'cmode' property to your text box class that you could use in the instance to indicate mandatory, optional, read-only, etc. And you could display all of them in a different color all the time, not only when the text box has focus just bu putting some code in the text box class's refresh method like so:

WITH THIS
   DO CASE
      CASE .cMode = 'O'  && Optional
           .BackColor = RGB( 255, 255, 255 )  && White
	   .ForeColor = RGB( 0,0,0 )          && Black
      CASE .cMode = 'M'  && Mandatory
	   .BackColor = RGB( 255,0,0 )    && Red
	   .ForeColor = RGB( 0,0,0 )      && Black
      CASE .cMode = 'R'  && Read Only
 	   .Enabled = .F.
      OTHERWISE		&& Default to Optional
	   .BackColor = RGB( 255, 255, 255 )  && White
	   .ForeColor = RGB( 0,0,0 )  && Black
   ENDCASE
ENDWITH

If you only want to flag mandatory fields and only want them a different color when they have focus, then put the code to do so in the text box's GotFocus method.

Marcia