>>SET NOTIFY OFF will stop the display of the WAIT WINDOW.

>Tks. That took care of the first part.
>Now is there an easy way for * me * to check the validity of the date considering it could be in several different format :).

Hi, Allan.

You can validate the value entered before the user tries to get out of the textbox in the InteractiveChange event.

Anyway, I don't undestand very well what kind of validation do you try to apply over VFP's own. If you want to allow the user to enter either DD/MM/YYYY *or* MM/DD/YYYY, btake in consideration that you can't know whether "05/06/2003" means May 6th or June 5th.

I think that letting the user select the format she would use trough the app is a good idea, but once she selected it, you have to SET DATE and be ask for any date value in a consistent fashion.

Indeed, a good idea if many different formats are expected can be to add some behaviour to your date textbox to display a little visual indication above or bellow the field stating the date format (you can show it when the control get focus and hide it when it looses it).

Hope this helps,