>On a form (to become my form template), I would like to change the back color of a text field when the user is entering or editing that particular field.
>
>The following works fine on the individual field property:
>
> In the GotFocus property:
> This.BackColor = RGB ( 225, 225, 225 )

It's an event, not a property.

>
> In the LostFocus property:
> This.BackColor = RGB ( 255, 255, 255 )

Also an event, not a property

>
>However I would l like to set the above in all text fields programmatically and tried:
>
>FOR II = 1 TO ThisForm.ControlCount
> IF "TXT" $ UPPER(ThisForm.Controls(II).Name)
> ThisForm.Controls(II).Enabled = .T. && This works!
> ThisForm.Controls(II).GotFocus.BackColor = RGB ( 225, 225, 225 ) && This does not work!

Yep - you can't assign a value to an event; something which contains code. You need to create a sibclass of the textBox that has the added code in the events, and use that rather than the default textbox.

> ENDIF
>ENDFOR
>
>I get an error that says "Unknown member GOTFOCUS
>
>Any hints?