>Hi Nadya.
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>>> Instead of nodefault it should be dodefault(). In this case it works. <<
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>No, it should be NODEFAULT. The Textbox::GotFocus() runs the native VFP base class behavior. Then, after you set the SelStart and SelLength, you issue the NODEFAULT because the native VFP GotFocus behavior resets these properties.
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>Marcia

Have you tried it with nodefault? I tried and it didn't work. It didn't select and the focus didn't appear. When I changed nodefault to dodefault(), it worked just fine.