>>>>>Does anyone have a sure solution to the VALIDATION OF A CONTROL OR CONTAINER?????
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA,
>>>>>Peter

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>For example I allow the blanking of my date field. If I used the embedded textbox control validation the moment I blanked a month but still had a day and a year the months Valid would return .f. because " /12/1997" is not a valid date. So instead I allow blank month, day, or year and check to see if they are all blank or all filled when focus is lost from the container.

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If you allow all blanks OR all filled, but not *part* filled, try this:

1) When you enter the form, automatically fill the textboxes with a
reasonable date. (Say, the current date.)
2) If the user *changes* one textbox, do whatever normal validation
you'd want to do (making sure they don't enter 13 for the month, or
whatever)
3) If the user *blanks* a textbox, and then changes focus (as opposed to
blanking the box before typing something new) FORCE a blank of the other
two boxes:
txtmonth.LostFocus:
IF THIS.Value = ""
txtyear.Value = ""
txtday.Value = ""
ENDIF

I realize this doesn't let you attach your validation to the container,
but the only way I can think of doing that would be to create a method
that checks validation, and then call it frequently.

Hope this helps...

--Liz