>>>> >In FoxPro 2.X you were/are able to tell foxpro to format this field, the
>>>> format could be upper case.
>>>> >In VFP 5.0a in an edit box you cant enter a ! for a format, which was the
>>>> command to tell foxpro
>>>
>>>Wait a minute - I've just put a ! into the textbox.format property (not
>>>the InputMask) and it simply works as it always did. (Vfp5.0) Though, it
>>>gives me a bit of a headache about building into my converters, because
>>>! was not connected to putting a @ before it, so it's not just as easy
>>>as "put into format what's between @ and the blank, stuff the rest into
>>>the inputmask".
>>
>>You're quite right...
>>This wasn't my statement about '!' -- it still works fine for me too in vfp5. But I thought the original question was how to customize keypress events, not just convert lower alpha to upper?...(oh, well...)
>
>Look at the question I said EDIT BOX not TEXT BOX.....there is a difference....

I don't see any edit box in question...only reference to "region", which maybe confused people. But in any event, I was answering to a generic keypress question, not just a text box...I don't know how that got into thread. Kind of like a rumor that morphs as it's passed along, I guess. (s)