>>You best bet is to stick with the WHEN and VALID methods that are the documented ... and is "very" likely to be gone in the next release.
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>I hear ya!
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>Actually I have done nothing with it yet. Too busy with other matters, plus, after some more investigation, it does not appear to fire reliably.

More to the point ... now the SP3 is out and we are released from NDA and such .. you will find that it does not appear to work any more.

As another hit... if you really want gotfocus() capabilites... encapsulate you grid inside a container ... and us its gotfocus/ lostfocus events