>>Valid will only fire if you've changed the value in the field. Could that be the problem?
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>It is incorrect. For textbox, for example, Valid fired each time you lose focus. In my base text box class I put code (if this.Value<> this.OldVal ...) just to prevent this functionality and run validation only when value changed.
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>However, from the common sense view, you're correct - it will be very good if we will have evebt that fires only when value really changed, but not for each character, but when losing focus.
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Yes, you're right. It used to work this way in 2.x but it doesn't in VFP, (although the Valid for combos and listboxes in VFP will only fire if you select something).

>Steven, how you managed to use Enter key to move to another control? If you do this from KeyPress event of control - here might be a problem. In my application when I use TAB key to move to other control, everything works very well.
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Unless you have a command button with Default set to .T., Enter should move you to the next object if you're in a textbox.