>>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 :-)
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>No, VALID() fires at all time as before but not in this specific situation.


Thanks, I saw he'd been using his foundation for so long he forgot what it did and thought the good behaviour he'd programmed into it wasn't what FoxPro always did...

I'm getting like that too. I expect VFP controls to do what my foundation controls do and get surprised when testing things for other people with the base classes :-)

That's the power of VFP.