Jim,
I was under the impression (wrongly) that when buffering was set that the field validations wouldn't fire until a tableupdate was issued. Erik informed me that this isn't the case and so the behavior I see is expected as you said.

Mark

>Mark,
>
>There is nothing to fix. The behavior you are seeing is by design. The database valid rules fire before the control's Valid event fires. You can use error handling to trap a field rule violation adn handle it yourself instead of letting VFP handle it for you.