>Your code is not forcing the valid before I leave the control on the form. I have placed this code in several places but since, as you said, toolbars NEVER get focus it makes matters more complicated. I am placing the code in a toolbar button's click event now.
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>The bottom line I cannot find how to get the valid to fire when moving of a form control onto the toolbar. The funny thing is that I have set step on in toolbar button's click event and the valid fires then.
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>IMHO, VFP is pathetic in this regard. The toolbar is almost useless because of this. Along these lines I have had to use a program called savebuff, written by Michel Fournier, in order to save the value in the control before moving to a tool bar button.
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Richard,

You may find this behavior of toolbars useless, but if you were using a toolbar button for cut/copy/.and paste you would be really glad that the control doesn't give up focus. Toolbars and menus never get focus. I don''t why the coide I posted for you didn't work, it is all my toolbar methods. I never do anything in the button's click other than calling a method of the toolbar.

The save button in the toolbars has this code;

THIS.Parent.DoSave()

The toolbar has this code in it;

IF TYPE("oCreator.oForm.ActiveControl.Name") = "C"
   IF PEMSTATUS(oCreator.oForm.ActiveControl,"Setfocus",5)
      oCreator.oForm.ActiveControl.SetFocus()
   ENDIF
ENDIF
oCreator.oForm.DoSave()

oCreator is the app object which I store in a property of every form and toolbar.