>However, I discovered that placing a dodefault() in the Gotfocus of the textbox does cause VFP to select the contents of a textbox control, even when navigating to the control using the mouse. (Though it does not seem to work this way if the textbox's parent is not a baseclass)
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>I sure don't get warm fuzzies when an explicit call to the parent's gotfocus clearly does something different than the implicit call that supposedly gets executed when one leaves a method empty.

Did you issue a NODEFAULT after the DODEFAULT() ?

If you did not, the net effect would be a "double click".