>Well the problem is that I have a button. If you happen to be in the field that is getting validated and you click the button, the valid event fires; but then the code in the click method of the button never runs. For some reason the valid event code is cancelling out the code in the button.
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>This is exactly what I would expect to happen. returning .F. or 0 from the Valid() method means that the control you are in does not lose focus. If you merely want to fisplay the message and move on, put the code in the LostFocus().

hmmm, not working when it's in the lost focus event either.

I put a =messagebox("i got clicked") as the first line of the click method of the button... but it never runs. Weird


Thanks for your help.