That did it... thanks for the help / message follow up...



>It's by design. A toolbar never gets focus so it stays on the textbox. See Re: Last changed textbox not saved. Message #939313
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>>ok... I thought so... Now, lets put a slight spin on this...
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>>Under the same scenario, have a toolbar control... have a "save button", or other exit, etc... If you have a form, and you are in a control and click a button, such as in a toolbar, it goes from the form's textbox control to the toolbar and never fires the valid event and thus flushing the possible changed value...
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>>Is this a bug??? or proper behavior... or is there a way to force a flush of the field (and not knowing which was the last field a user was currently in).
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