Editbox Cursor Position

[hjohnson]

I have a editbox on a form whose controlsource is a memo field. The memo field is contantly being updated as to status of the process and therefore so is the editbox. The position of the cursor is alway at the first line in the editbox- Is there any way to force it be at the end so the user doesn't have to keep scrolling down to read the last entries?

A million thanks in advance

HJ

 

[Neil Toulouse]

In this instance, edtNotes is your editbox and curNotes.Notes is the bound field. At the point you refresh or whereever add:

.edtNotes.SELSTART = LEN(ALLTRIM(curNotes.Notes))
.edtNotes.SETFOCUS()
"I love work. I can sit and stare at it for hours..."

 

[ramani]

HI

In the EditBox.GotFocusEvent put the code..

KEYBOARD "{CTRL+END}"

This will take care of positioning at the end.
ramani
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com

 

[Neil Toulouse]

Hi Ramani

The {CTRL+END} does put the cursor at the end but if the editbox is scrollable it doesn't scroll to the end. "I love work. I can sit and stare at it for hours..."

 

[Neil Toulouse]

Sorry Ramani, it does, my mistake! "I love work. I can sit and stare at it for hours..."

 

[hjohnson]

Thanks, This works great as long as the editbox as the focus, as soon as it's lost, the cursor goes back to the top- I need to have the focus set to another control- Would I be better off using a different type of control?

HJ