Hi,

The valid event fires just before the object loses focus. It's either the refresh that calls it or it's in your flipenable method. Since the valid below calls them, the object loses focus causing the valid to trigger.

HTH,
Arriyel

>Hi Everyone,
>
>Can someone please tell me why in the code below the MessageBox gets caught in a continuous loop. This code is being called in the Valid event of a TextBox. Surely, I'm missing something.
>******************
>local lnanswer
>
>If Empty(This.value)
> lnanswer=messagebox("First Name field cannot be blank",1,"Text Entry Error.")
>Endif
>
>If lnanswer = 2 && If the Cancel button is clicked back out of the record.
> Tablerevert()
> Thisform.flipenable
> Thisform.Refresh
>
>Endif
>
>Return 0
>******************