Hi, Ken,

The way you would do this is to wait until 4846iBeamInNullText 
appears in the external update streams.

Cheers,

   -- Scott

PS: Sorry for the long delay in responding.


At 5:33 PM -0700 4/1/02, Ken G. Brown wrote:
>How would you get the text insertion bar to show up when you first click in
>this little pane? It appears when you start typing but it would be nice to
>be there beforehand so you have an idea the pane has keyboard focus.
>Thx.
>Ken
>
>>  Ken,
>>
>>  The type-in pane of the "Objects Tool" (seen when its "find" tab is
>>  selected) had a similar need.  Check out ObjectsTool.newSearchPane to
>  > see how it does it.