>Thanks for responding Garrett. I tried something simple

>ON readerror do readError in businesLogic

>In businessLogic

>PROCEDURE readError
>WAIT WINDOW 'read error'
>RETURN

>I put the above in main.prg. In my class for my dateTextBox, I put it in the init, keypress,valid. No luck, same error. Any ideas??
>Thanks, vince

Hmm. Keypress and Valid are definitely out -- this fires before them. I'm a bit surprised that Init didn't work, though. What happens if you try Dragan's GotFocus suggestion?

Anybody have a version of the VFP help file handy where this is still documented?