>Thank You for your response.
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>I understand that form1.error() gets priority over ON ERROR.
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>However, My point was; how come form1 allows the ON ERROR to trigger in prg1, while form2 triggers it's own error() event ?
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>They are both running the same prg1 code, they inherit from the same class, and they have the same code in their error() event.
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Important is where you call the prg1 code.

Call you the prg1 in the same form method ?

>I am trying to understand the inconsitency of this situation.
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>- Also is there anyway, I can FORCE form2 to do what form1 is doing ? (allow ON ERROR to trigger instead of error()).
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>If this behavior is purely based on LUCK (as it seems that it is), then I will have to change all my code and convert the ON ERROR mechanism to TRY ..CATCH as Doug suggested. However, I am reluctant to change all that code which has been working for so long...
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>Thanks again.