text selection question

[Bill Humphrey]

Robert Brenstein wrote:

>> 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.
>

I would not have expected a simple "on open field" to have something 
else happen after that changes the focus. I wonder what it is so I can 
stop it?