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() && or do your restore here
                  && I would consider retrieving goodDate from a table rather
                  && rather than from a memory variable file...
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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