>>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:
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>>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
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>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
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>this.text = ""
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>I am curious to know if this solves your problem.

No = that didn't do it. This is kinda wierd. I'll try with variations on the theme.