As one more suggestion, you may want to check out the "SelectOnEntry"

property. I haven't messed with it much myself. I've normally used the

below suggestion. But since the property is there, I thought I'd mention it.

HTH,

-Charlie

>You could do a:

>

>keyboard '{END}'

>keyboard '{HOME}'

>keyboard '{SHIFT+END}'

>

>and it *might* work. I say *might* because there are cases where it doesn't

>work (like having a textbox/editbox contained in a container class that's

>programmatically added to a grid ... in which case NOTHING works to

>auto-select text reliably). I'm sure there are other methods to achieve what

>you want, but my brain is mush at the moment having had the pleasure of

>debugging a chain of MS Exchange Servers all morning (F#*&!!##KIN#@##@!).

>

>- AHilton

>

> > Ok, I've got an editbox with Format="K" and it's not selecting

> > all the text

> > when I set focus to the box!!! Argh!

> >

> > How can I programatically do this in the GotFocus event of the editbox???

> >

> > TIA,