>Yep.
>That was great.
>I wouldn't have thought of it.
>
>Now I have to figure out how to put that in the lost focus of all the base classes of my framework without spoiling anything.
>
>Wouldn't this trick mark the field as changed if I simply tab over the control ?
>
>Thanks a lot Cetin

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Would mark. Then at the top of your textbox class.lostfocus you could add :

if this.Value # oldval(this.Controlsource)
 this.Value = this.Value
endif

Cetin