Thanks John. The shape was my first thought too. I worked, but it didn't quite jump out at ya, so I added the timer to make it blink. Hmmm... just noticed he's using 2 checkboxes... excuse me while I make a quick trip back to the drawing board.

>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.
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>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.
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>>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: