KB135626 - HOWTO: How to Select Field on Entry on a Form in Visual FoxPro

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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