>>>>How do you show in the editbox if Insert is set on or off?
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>>>>TIA
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>>>I don't think you can. About all you can do is show the status in the StatusBar. You'll see either a " " for insert mode, or "OVR" for type over mode.
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>>I have always had status bar off. Don't remember why but somehow I think it had something to do with a bug in VFP 6 when status bar is set on. But I may be mistaken.
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>>Thank you for your help.
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>You might be able to put code in the EditBox Keypress that checks for the Insert key and then toggles a background color or text color for the editbox, or some other visual cue to the Insert state. You could use the INSMODE() function to get the current state.
Thank you very much for the suggetion. This could work. I will ask the customer what kind of background color effect they can live with.
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