Glenn,

I would suspect a "stuck" key or even a stuck mouse click before anything else.

Good luck,
Jim N

>my problem is when the valid event fires in my forms after my own error box appears a system error 'Invalid entry, press space to continue' displays in the main foxpro window and locks the screen until spacebar is pressed.
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>This happened previously and was not solved until Windows 95 was re-installed.
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>It happens in all forms for all foxpro systems on my PC that worked perfectly before and still work OK on all other PC's.
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>The valid event uses keypress/keycode so field level validation only fires when enter is pressed, the problem does not arise when the valid event is called at form level using a global variable to mimic the field commit.
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>The only other problem I have had recently which may/may not be related is losing the path to the VFP default resource file for storing screen positions etc.
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>My own error messages come from the errormessage event then the 'unwanted' error appears.