>Hi!
>
>Don't use the Valid Event use LostFocus instead and then if you want to stay in that same control maybe your validation routine returns false then just setfocus back to the same control [This.SetFocus()]
>
>Sarosh

If I put two textboxes on a form. One with...
procedure lostfocus
if empty(this.value)
messagebox('Invalid')
this.setfocus()
endif

and the other with
procedure gotfocus
messagebox('Got me')

You will see that on tabbing out of box 1 you still get both messages and box 2 gets the focus anyway!