Great answer. And if Jeff's Textboxes are static, he can put this code in Init for the TextBox and if the information is dynamic, he can put it into Refresh. In either case, he can set the Value to the EVAL condition.
Jeff, also disable the textbox (Enabled=.F.) or (ReadOnly=.T.)
>>I got a table that uses values from 1 to 12 in a field. I want to show as a Character month in a text box.
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ln = myTable.myField
>lc = LTRIM( STR( ln ) )
>? cmonth( EVAL( '{^'+str(year(date()),4)+'/'+lc+'/01}'))
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