Hi again.

Forgot to mention that I've set oItemCode.SelectOnEntry to .F., yet the behavior is what you'd expect with it set to .T. When the field gets focus (it's TabOrder is 1, so it is initially in focus), the text is all selected. That's what I mean by "no effect."

Dan

>Hi all.
>
>I want to position the text entry cursor at the end of a prefilled string in a textbox. This works fine with the textbox base class, but not with ctextboxl. My code snippet is as follows, where oItemCode is the instance of ctextboxl:
>
>With Thisform
> If .lAddMode or Empty(.oItemCode.TextBox.Value)
> .oItemCode.TextBox.Value = v_vendor.VendNr
> .oItemCode.TextBox.SelStart = len(.oItemCode.TextBox.Value)
> Endif .lAddMode or ...
>Endwith
>
>Clues, anyone?
>
>Dan