input box default text ***resolved***

[Halon]

how would i set an input box to have text existing when it appears. I need to give the user the option to take the default or their own choice

[James Stanich]

InputBox Function


Displays a prompt in a dialog box, waits for the user to input text or click a button, and returns a String containing the contents of the text box.

Syntax

InputBox(prompt[, title] [, default] [, xpos] [, ypos] [, helpfile, context])

The InputBox function syntax has these named arguments:

prompt Required. String expression displayed as the message in the dialog box. The maximum length of prompt is approximately 1024 characters, depending on the width of the characters used. If prompt consists of more than one line, you can separate the lines using a carriage return character (Chr(13)), a linefeed character (Chr(10)), or carriage return–linefeed character combination (Chr(13) & Chr(10)) between each line.
title Optional. String expression displayed in the title bar of the dialog box. If you omit title, the application name is placed in the title bar.

default Optional. String expression displayed in the text box as the default response if no other input is provided. If you omit default, the text box is displayed empty.

xpos Optional. Numeric expression that specifies, in twips, the horizontal distance of the left edge of the dialog box from the left edge of the screen. If xpos is omitted, the dialog box is horizontally centered.

ypos Optional. Numeric expression that specifies, in twips, the vertical distance of the upper edge of the dialog box from the top of the screen. If ypos is omitted, the dialog box is vertically positioned approximately one-third of the way down the screen.
helpfile Optional. String expression that identifies the Help file to use to provide context-sensitive Help for the dialog box. If helpfile is provided, context must also be provided.

context Optional. Numeric expression that is the Help context number assigned to the appropriate Help topic by the Help author. If context is provided, helpfile must also be provided.

[Halon]

Thanks James, I was trying that but recieved an integer value and thought i was on the wrong track. As i am pulling the value from a DB query it must be an error on my side (how could that happen? LOL)
Thanks for the confirmation

[Halon]

the code below worked great for grabbing from listbox control

newEmail = InputBox("Modify email entry below:", "Edit", lstEmails.List(lstEmails.ListIndex))