Hi!

You can make text box bound manually and make a value of it as a character string with specifying of the input mask. I have seen such class in some framework (or standard classes provided by ms?), that control also had a spinner to spin a day, month or year of the date. The date was a character string and a control source was not used to bind to data, instead of that code in refresh event and valid event do reading/writing of the data in the field.

HTH.

>>>I observe the same behaviour. The invalid date data becomes selected which is the only clue that there is a problem. AFAIC, nothing fires, either, including LostFocus and Valid. Nothing happens unless the date is blank or a valid date is entered.
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>>VFP validates it before the Valid event fires.
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>This, in turn, lead to a question: how can we identify it programmatically, if nothing fires, and this is an internal thing?
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>For instance, if I click on the button, I want to execute code in it regardless of the validity of data... We probably can write a code in KeyPress??