>>>I have a listbox where the definition is like this
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>>>BoundColumn=2
>>>ControlSource=wgtset.struc_id
>>>RowSource=select name,struc_id from struc where template=1 order by 1 into cursor temp
>>>RowSourceType=3
>>>
>>>When I create enter my form when creating a new record, the listbox is blank because wgtset.struc_id does not contains any value. If I press TAB to move to my next field, the Valid() event of the listbox is not fired. Isn't the Valid() event suppose to be fired whenever we exist the field?
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>>My limited VFP experience so far has been that most Valid events only fire if data has changed.
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>IN VFP 3 the valid would fire all the time.
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>If it's now true that vlid only fires when data has changed that is a GREAT improvement.
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>It does mean that code that should execute when you tab out of the control belongs in the LostFocus() method. But then _really_ it always did, just you could get away with muddy thinking about the partitioning of hte responsibilities of the methods :-)

It takes a while to get out of the mindset created by 2.x, where the methods were so limited that one often had to rely on Valid for all sorts of non-validation events. But I agree, Lostfocus is really where most post-control code belongs...