>Bret,
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>In addition to what less said, these bitmap controls also have some advantages over the native Windows controls. The FoxTeam was not limited by the databound restrictions found in native controls and they were able to make some extra events for controls.
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>It wouldn't be the first time that inventions of the VFP team would be used in other MS products. Maybe MS will use the functionality now found in the VFP Controls in the native controls in some future versions of windows because they're generally easier to use.
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>Regards,
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>Walter

I think that Access controls are native windows controls, since Access forms have window handles. They don't have the .WHEN and .VALID events. I found that Access .OnExit and .OnLostFocus events wouldn't fire reliably if the control was in a subform (kind of like a grid but more flexible) and I clicked on the main form.

So, if I understand you correctly, they left it like that in order to give us a better event model. I suppose that it is that way in the first place because Fox Software developed FoxPro Win 2.6 that way?