Yes, has a couple of weird side effects, but it works.

It still would be interresting to know how Raiseevent is supposed to work.

Thank's guys.

Peter

>Hi,
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>Just put this.SetFocus() in the UpClick() and DownClick() event code.
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>Regards,
>Viv
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>>>
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>Problem: The spinner UpClick, DownClick and InteactiveChange does not seem to affect the underlying controlsource until the control looses the focus, that is the valid event fires.
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>So, a method that would run through the open views or dbf's and try to determine whether any changes have been made to the data by using GetNextModified(0) does not work.
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>Having tried a number of approaches, including a Keyboard {'Tab'} to force the Valid event to fire (didn't), I then turned to RaiseEvent.
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>The help says:
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>You can use RAISEEVENT() to raise, or trigger, an event from a custom method. Though RAISEEVENT() applies primarily to custom methods, you can use it for raising native events and methods.
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>So I tried RaiseEvent and BindEvent, both with no luck.
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>Spinner.UpClick method: RAISEEVENT(This,'Valid')
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>Or-
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>Spinner.Init method:
>BINDEVENT(This,"Valid",This,"UpClick")
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>or
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>BINDEVENT(This,"Valid",This,"UpClick",1)
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>Have I got it backwards, or is this just not possible?
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>If not, what can I do to solve my problem?