text selection question

[Robert Brenstein]

>If the command select or focus on is run from and open fld or in the 
>message box then the selection just flashes for a second. If it is 
>run from a button on the card then it works as expected. version 2.6 
>- what am I doing wrong?
>
>Bill Humphrey wrote:
>

Just what you found out: you are selecting at wrong time. Whatever 
occurs after you made the selection shifts the focus causing the 
selection to be unselected.

Robert