I have a form that replaces an FPD26 screen. In the old dos screen textbox's valid, code as below was run:

RETURN rpmvalid(ab_rela)

rpmvalid would validate the value of ab_rela and if not valid, provide a popup screen to select a valid value. The valid value selected from the popup screen was returned to the textbox via:

KEYBOARD CHR(25) + LEFT(m.whatrelation,10)

In the VFP form's valid method, this is not working. IF I use something similar to:

llreturn=RPMVALID(ab_rela)
IF llreturn
   RETURN .T.
ELSE
   RETURN 0
ENDIF

Then the next control's value following the textbox is populated with the keyboard buffer's data due to the RETURN .T. or RETURN 1. If I RETURN 0 if llreturn is .T. to stuff the textbox's value with the data in the keyboard buffer returned from the popup then of course I am stuck in the textbox control infinitely. I need to grab the value in the keyboard buffer and store it to the textbox's value and return .t. somehow. I can only see how to determine if the keyboard buffer has a value, not grab what it is using CHRSAW(). Any ideas?

TIA,