>>My limited VFP experience so far has been that most Valid events only fire if data has changed.
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>Unless I am missing something, we had a thread last week about finding an easy solution to know if a data changes or not to avoid executing the Valid() event code if no change occured.
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>In my experience, the Valid() fires all the time.

ahhh.. my Foxpro base class textbox reacts as yours does, but not my subclassed from library.