>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I encountered this problem before. To get rid of the 'Invalid entry, press space to continue'', use return 0 in your valid event instead of return .f.
>>>
>>>Hope this helps!
>>>
>>>Destine
>>
>>Destine,
>>
>>Using the 0 does stop the Invalid Entry message but I am using the ErrorMessage event which needs to be triggered by a .f. return.
>>When you had the problem did it start happening suddenly ? Have you any idea what caused it ?
>>
>>My forms all worked OK before and still work when run from another machine, I am beginning to suspect it relates to the Windows95/VFP relationship. Even if VFP is deleted from hard disk and re-installed the problem still occurs but if Windows is re-installed everything is fine again (but then something upsets it again after a time).
>>
>>Does any of this sound familiar to your situation ?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Glenn.
>
>
>Glenn,
>
>When this happened to me, I just moved from VFP 3 to VFP 5. This problem did not seem to happen in VFP 3. Are you on VFP 5 ?
>However, since return 0 solved my problems, I really didn't go much further.
>
>Anyway, hope it helps.
>
>Good Luck !

Destine,

The systems on the machine in question are all version 3.
The only time I had a similar problem after installing ver 5 on a different machine was because Set Notify was ON so was easily rectified.

Thanks for your help, I will let you know if I get to the bottom of this.

Glenn