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"Prompt User for Input" Express VI Tab Order

Can the tab order of the Labview 7 Express VI "Prompt User for Input" be changed so the cursor starts in the text input field?
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If you click on the express VI after you have configured it and select show front panel LV will ask whether you want to convert it to a standard sub-VI.

If you do that you can easily modify it to highlight the input field you want the cursor to start in, change tab-order etc...

Off course that's not an ideal solution as you loose the express VI's special configuration features, but I believe that's the only way you can do it yourself (or...?)
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Thanks. That helped me get the input field to be the first in the tab order (tab pos. 0), but the front panel still seemed to require the tab key to be pressed before the cursor appears. I saw another post inquiring about the same problem, for which the solution was to set the key focus property of the text control to true in the block diagram.
This also requires converting to a standard subvi, however.
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