Timothy,
You could do it within the init() method of the textbox, or you could do it from outside of the textBox:
frmMyForm.AddObject('text1','myTextBox')
goodDate = date()
frmMyForm.text1.value = goodDate
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>YES, that example helped alot, got me on track. 1 quest I have though is that I substituted a textbox for the cmdbuttons in the example and I want the textbox to start off with a value taken from a .mem var. Where do I put my "restore from l:gooddate.mem addit" statement to make it work? Right now it's telling me "GOODDATE" is not found.
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Steve Gibson