>Jay -
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>Very interesting solution. Only question is, what if it's not a "Tab" keystroke? A menu selection or button click can have the same effect.
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>I know that some people have tried to enter dates as strings, and then convert them. I don't know how successful that is.
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>Not trying to be a naysayer, but I think we may be stuck with the VFP default behavior here.
>zahid

Zahid,

Yes, this is exactly that I thought too. Perhaps, we still can trap mouse up/mouse down events, etc., but it seems like a lot of work. I haven't tried set notify on yet, may be this would be a solution (not a best one, of course).

Other than that, I think, I should live with this behavior. May be users will never find this behavior, as I did :)
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>>You can capture a tab or enter in the KEYPRESS and look at the TEXT property to see what the user has entered. If you process before any DODEFAULT(), I think you'll get user entry, rather than a reformat based on the control source -- but I haven't tested this.
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>> Jay