Heh, I wish... It happens as soon as I press a key, there is no maximum # of characters. Thanks for the thought.

>A wild stab from Fox2.6 perspective.............
>
>Is it possible that SET CONFIRM = OFF and you have reached the maximum number of input characters?
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I hope somebody else can see why I am unexpectedly losing focus on the textbox which has the following code in its KEYPRESS method:
>>
>>

>>
>>LPARAMETERS nKeyCode, nShiftAltCtrl
>>lcAlias = 'inventory'
>>lcField = 'upname'
>>
>>if nKeycode = 127
>>    if empty(this.value)
>>         nodefault
>>    endif
>>endif
>>
>>
>>IF empty(this.Text)
>>	keyval=Seek(UPPER(Chr(nKeyCode)),lcAlias,lcField)		
>>else
>>	keyval=Seek(UPPER(subs(This.Text,1,This.SelStart)+Chr(nKeyCode)),lcAlias,lcField)
>>ENDIF
>>_name = inventory.name
>>
>>
>>
>>If keyval
>>	nCurPos = This.SelStart + 1
>>	This.Value = _name
>>	This.SelStart = nCurPos
>>	If Len(Allt(_name)) - nCurPos > 0
>>		This.SelLength = Len(Allt(_name)) - nCurPos
>>	ENDIF
>>
>>	Nodefault
>>
>>ENDIF
>>
>>

>>
>>The bizarre thing is that it works as I expect it to for a few times, then on the third or fourth invocation I will suddenly have the LOSTFOCUS method fire, although I am only pressing the normal alphanumeric fields.
>>
>>Any ideas?