>Hey gang,
>
>Man, do I feel silly asking this question, but I just can't seem to get this to work. This is actually an FPDOS 2.0 question, but would apply most likely to FPW 2.6 as well:
>
>I have a push button and I want to toggle the prompt that it displays. The initial @GET is this:
>
>

>pFilter    = "Pick Dept"
>pNewDept   = "New Department"
>
>pShowIt    = '"@*HN ' + ALLTRIM(pFilter) + '"'
>m.FilterIt = ALLTRIM(pFilter)
>
>@ 0,24 get m.FilterIt ;
>   picture &pShowIt ;
>   size 1,14,1 ;
>   valid DeptValid()
>

>OK, elsewhere on the screen is a push button that executes code to change the prompt:
>
>

>pShowIt    = '"@*HN ' + ALLTRIM(pNewDept) + '"'
>m.FilterIt = ALLTRIM(pNewDept)
>
>@ 0,20 CLEAR TO 0,40
>@ 0,20 get m.FilterIt ;
>   picture &pShowIt ;
>   size 1,18,1 ;
>   valid DeptValid()
>
>show get m.FilterIt
>

>There's another button that's supposed to change it back to the original as well.
>
>So, what happens? Well, when the @Get for the new prompt executes, you can see the new prompt behind the original prompt (only cuz it's larger), but I can't seem to get rid of the original prompt, the @CLEAR doesn't seem to be doing it.
>
>What am I missing???
>TIA,

Hi Bonnie,

What I don't see is something like:

SHOW GET varname PROMPT promptstring

where varname is the variable name, and promptstring is the prompt you want to display. This was FPD 2.5, however.