HOWTO: How to Select Field on Entry on a Form in Visual FoxPro (135626)

SUMMARY

The Screen Designer in FoxPro version 2.x products has a check box in the Field dialog box under Options labeled Select Field on Entry. The check box is selected by default, and the format picture clause "@K" is generated for the field so that when the form is run and the field entered, its contents are selected. This option is no longer set by default in Visual FoxPro.

MORE INFORMATION

To achieve the same select-on-entry behavior in Visual FoxPro, use any one of these techniques:

Set the Format property of each text box to K, and set SelectedBackColor to 0,0,128. -or-

Add the following lines of code to the Init event procedure of the form:

   THISFORM.SetAll("Format","K","Textbox")
   THISFORM.SetAll("SelectedBackColor",RGB(0,0,128),"Textbox")

-or-

In the GotFocus event procedure of a text object, enter this code:

   NODEFAULT
   textbox::GotFocus
   this.sellength=LEN(<fldname>)

-or-

In the GotFocus method of the object, place the following code:

      IF !EMPTY(this.value)
       KEYBOARD "{end}"
       KEYBOARD "{shift+home}"
      ENDIF