Hi Ed,

Why do you prefer to use LostFocus event instead of Valid?

>The first thing is that, presonally, I use LostFocus and never Valid.
>In regard to your problem: there are few ways. For example:
>

>***Textbox.InteractiveChange event
>This.tag="A"
>***Textbox.LostFocus event
>IF Empty(This.Tag)
> Return
>Endif
>This.Tag=""
>** run your code here
>

>
>
>>Hmmm... Let me step back a step then, maybe there is another way than a custom property...
>>
>>What I really want to do is to run some code in my valid event if the user has changed the value of the text box. (Basically, it does a lookup into another table and fills fields based off the current ssn.) But if the user doesn't make a change to the ssn, I would rather not run the code.
>>
>>So, what is the best way to tell if a user has changed the value of a text box during the valid event?
>>
>>>>Arrgh. Slightly more than a minute. Oh well.
>>>>
>>>>So the only way to do it is to add a custom class? Yech.
>>>>
>>>>Would it work if I put in the form's init method a call to the text box's addproperty method?
>>>
>>>It's supposed to work in VFP6 (basically I'm still with VFP5), but the normal OO design (IMHO) does not like it.