As Mike said, there's no native InputBox function in VFP. Like a lot of developers I "rolled my own", which isn't too hard to do. I'd been meaning to publish it and your question has prompted me to do so. I uploaded it to the UT files section tonight, so you can look for INPUTBOX.ZIP to show up here in the next day or two. I hope you find it useful.

>Is there an "Inputbox" or equivelant in VFP?
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>Similar to the one used when opening a view which uses the "?variable" syntax.
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>I just want to display a small dialog with a textbox and return whatever's entered. It's not important enough to create a form, but I thought there'd be an inbuilt function.
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>- Aaron.