That's pretty cool. You know, I tried the obvious of putting a shape around the checkbox and turning it's visible property on and off in the checkbox got and lost focus but that didn't appear to work. Hence my container idea.

One of my rules of thumb for VFP: If it don't work the way you want it, throw it into a container and do it from there.


>You can also eliminate the overhead of the shape object by using the form's box() method to highlight the checkbox by using following timer.timer() code:
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>oObject = thisform.check1
>thisform.drawWidth=2
>thisform.CurrentX = oObject.Left - 1
>thisform.CurrentY = oObject.Top + 5
>thisform.box(oObject.Left + 13, oObject.Top + 20)
>
>>Good idea. I Think I'll implement that.
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>>>You can also make this effect more 'cursor-like' by making it blink with a >timer. Try adding a timer with a 500 interval with the following code in the >timer event:
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>>>thisform.shape1.visible = ! thisform.shape1.visible
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>>>Then enable the timer on gotfocus(), and disable on lostfocus()