Martin,
Tks. It does help.

>Hi, Allan.
>
>>The user will set the date format once and not on a field by field basis.
>>I will then 'set date' as you suggested.
>>I don't want to do validation * in addition * to VFP - I want to validate
>>* before/instead * of VFP.
>>I was hoping that there was a built-in function or class that would allow me to mimic VFP date checking.
>
>I understood that. I just can't imagine what kind of validation you want to do different from VFP's own.
>
>Then you can try doing it in the InteractiveChange. Of course you should ignore the value until it is complete. Then you can apply any validation *before* the user tries to get out the field, thus triggering VFP valid.
>
>Hope this helps,