>>Well, I don't know why the combobox does not get the focus when trying the setfocus method, but you can try the valid method, if you don't wan't the user to get out of the combobox, return 0, that won't give you an error and will keep the user until the right conditions are met and return .t. happens.
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>Actually, the valid event does not even fire for a dropdown box when you
>exit the field ... this is why any testing needs to be down in the
>lostfocus.

Lots of replies, I'm not sure whether anyone submitted this code for lostfocus:

nodefault
this.setfocus

will keep it where it is & fire gotfocus. Just 'Nodefault' will keep it where it is.