I'm not sure why having an ActiveX control on the form should affect this. I've used a treeview on a form with textboxes a lot, and the textboxes have always accepted a dash character. You may want to try a test form with one ActiveX control at a time to see if it's one of them in particular that's causing this problem.

>Barbara,
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>Thank you.
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>Forgot to mention, it has nothing on the format property. This textbox class works OK if there is no ActiveX class used in the form.
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>>>Hi there,
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>>>I am using Visual FoxPro 5.
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>>>TextBox does not accept dash (hyphen, minus). It is character data type and has no controlsource, inputmask, keypress event. And TreeView, ListView, StatusBar and ImageList use in the form.
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>>>Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
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>>A textbox will accept a dash under normal circumstances. You didn't mention that you've checked the format property. If that's also empty, are you sure your textbox isn't based on a class that either has a format, inputmask or keypress code?