>>>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.
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>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...
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>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 :-)
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>That's the power of VFP.

Yes ! But it also points out, (and everyone was kind enough not to mention it) that the method naming convention _Valid allowed this oversight. Fortunately, we are very early in our conversion process, and can easily rename. Probably _ValidChange.