>>I have a text box on a form that is enabled, and it's selectonentry is .t., but I can not click in the text box. I can tab into it and change the text as usual, but cannot click into it, even when I am already in the text box? The mouse cursor does not even change to an i-bar when I am over the text box. Does anyone have an idea of what my problem is here? Your help would be appreciated. Thanks
>
>Ross,
>There should be a transparent shape or container in front of it.
>Cetin

100 % agreed. However, I put shapes around parts of my form all over the place (a sunken line as usual) and this never gives any problems. Remember, I do this afterwards (Objects in it are already there). But, I have this only one sutiation exactly as described, and didn't even begin to think on the reason;

Cetin, what you describe, would this imply that shapes should always be drawn before the objects are there ? I mean the other way around : I think in my situation where it doesn't work the textboxes may be instantiated just after the shape is put there. On the other hand, all stuff created at design-time has shapes too, and they are obviously there before the objects (all being created at run-time). So ?? What's your opinion on this ?