>You are, of course, right--I mean the Valid event. In any method, I mean event, yes, I have used the LostFocus successfully. I just thought I was being stupid. Of what possible use is the Valid event if it fires 2-3 times when the control loses focus?
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there is nothig wrong with the valid event it only fires once -
one of the msgbox you see is VFP default reaction to a return .f. in the valid event (u can bypass it with return 0)
basically it seems though, that the valid event is there as a legacy from the valid snippet in previous versions

Arnon