>>Is there a way to prevent the VALID event of an object when the user close a form by clicking the close box on the upper-right corner of a window ?
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>>Thanks, Luca
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>Luca,
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>Research the ReleaseType property of the form. It is set when the closebox is clicked. I don't recall the numnber for the closebox but it is in the helpfile. Code like this in the valid will do what you want.
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>IF Thisform.ReleaseType = [the number for the close Box]
>   RETURN .T.
>ENDIF
>*** The rest of the valid goes here
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Thank you very much, Jim.