>Hi all,
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>I need to know why the Valid event isn't fired when I change the focus to another control Using the mouse.
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>Please help me.
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>Thanks in advance!!!
>


I didn't see any problem in the code. I'd put a Messagebox or WAIT WINDOW before the If DoDefault() line to be sure the event is not firing.
A mouse click won't change the keyboard buffer, so if there is an ESC in there, the code after LastKey() <> 27 won't run if you leave the field by mouse.