Setfocus to textbox with input mask

[ZOR]

I have a textbox with an input mask 00:00:00:00

When I set focus to it, its all highlighted in black, how can I get the cursor at the front and no total highlighting. I tried selstart but that does not seem to want to do it. Any ideas, thanks

 

[TheAceMan1]

Howdy ZOR . . .

Have a look at the [blue]SelStart[/blue] property.

See Ya! . . . . . .

 

[ZOR]

Thanks, however as I said, selstart does not do what I want. The whole field goes black with the cursor at the front (left). I don't want the whole textbox highlighted or whatever its called when it's blacked in.

 

[ZOR]

I have bodged it. I set focus to the textbox, and make its value = "", the inputmask is not there to see, the cursor blinks in the control, but as soon as a first digit is entered the mask appears. Probably the best I will get?

 

[ZmrAbdulla]

Try this
[tt]Me.Text0.SelLength = Me.Text0.SelStart[/tt]

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Zameer Abdulla
Help to find Missing people

 

[ZOR]

Thanks Zameer, but it still returns to the textbox fully enclosed. Thanks for trying, but I will just use the method of making the textbox = "" and have the cusor blink in the middle with no mask showing until the first digit gets entered. I also tried reversing your code to see if it would work. Regards.

 

[ZmrAbdulla]

This is working for me

Private Sub Text0_Enter()
Me.Text0.SelLength = 0
End Sub

selecting only the first digit
Inputmask is
00:00:00:00;0;:

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Zameer Abdulla
Help to find Missing people

 

[ZOR]

Played with it again, and no, still does not do it. Been into options to check focus on partial highlighting. I then tried to do another part of the program, where I looked for the Len of the text0, it always gave 11 being its mask of 00:00:00:00. Never mind I am working around it and will leave it as is as it seems to be okay operationally. Thanks again