>>Thanks for your advice. The VFP internal date check still occurs before the Valid event.
>>
>>Remember, I am not treating the date field as a character field. It is a date field which is why VFP seems to edit it before the Valid
>>event.
>>
>
>you might want to use the spndate control I posted on the September Issue of the VFUG newsletter
>
>Arnon

I tried a modified version of the old FPW method of doing this and it still works.

In the init method of the object:
SET NOTIFY OFF
ON READERROR Wait Window *MyDateMessage*

In the Destroy method of the object:
ON READERROR

Invalid dates produce MyDateMessage

The help text on readerror says Included for backward compatability, use the Valid method of the Object. (if it would let us !)