In VFP the logical place to put your code is commandbutton's Click() event not Valid().

>Hi all.
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>In a lot of my apps, the need arises to have a SetFocus in the Valid method but VFP does not allow this. There does not seem to me to be any good reason for this.
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>Consider the folowing screen, with say 4 Cmd buttons:
>cmdUpdate
>cmdEnq1
>cmdEnq2
>cmdReport
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>In the cmdUpdate, there is a bunch of code that Updates a whole pile of files and if this runs ok, I want to set focus on the cmdreport button.
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>Now if I tab past these buttons,I dont want to set focus to the cmdReport so I cannot put the SetFocus code in the lostFocus of the cmdUpdate.
>(I know I can disable the cmdReport button but lets ignore this for the purpose of the discussion)
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>Why cant I use the setfocus in the Valid event where would seem to be the most logical place.
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>Can this be done in VFP7 ?
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>Regards,
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>Gerard