>I have tried this and setfocus to the other column, but to get back the focus to the addbutton it will do the same. So I still can't get back to the addbutton.

Okay, this is ugly, but here's a workaround to the unwanted extra event-firing (I'm not sure if it's bug or design, but it's still present behavior in vfp6 beta):

1) create a property at form level, like "qty_done"
2) set it .F. in your cmdadd button click
3) set it true in the When of the qty textbox
4) in each of gotfocus,valid, and lostfocus put no code
5) in qty textbox keypress, put

if nkeycode = 13 && 'enter pressed'
thisform.cmdadd.setfocus
endif

Something like this should work...you could do a validity check, etc., on return to cmdadd, based on qty_done...