>I am trying to warn the user when they post-date the date entered in my grid. In addition to the warning, I want to blank out the date. I've put the following in the VALID EVENT of the text box:
>
>IF This.value > DATE() AND NOT EMPTY(This.Value)
> =MESSAGEBOX("Tou may NOT Post-Date Submittals!"+CHR(13)+"Verify date is today's - or blank - date.",16+0,"Warning")
> This.Value = {//}
> RETURN .F.
>ENDIF
>
>It all works - EXCEPT THE ENTERED DATE IS NOT BLANKED! What might I be doing wrong?
>
>TIA

I once ran into this and finally traced it to the textbox's text property was not staying coordinated with its value. I don't know what causes this, but I got around it with

this.text = ""

I am curious to know if this solves your problem.