>I have a dropdown list. It has code in its Valid event. If I subclass the Lostfocus event and put any code in it whatsoever, even something as simple as SET STEP ON, when I change value in the list, the Valid is skipped and Lostfocus fires?
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>Any ideas what might be going on here?
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>Thanks,

I just did a little test, and valid fires before lostfocus. In my own experience, VALID is, at the least, difficult to understand and seems to have a mind of its own.

FWIW: I use WHEN to constrain access to the higher tabstops, and lostfocus to validate the current control.

.txtTabOne.Lostfocus
*** check to make sure value is okay
*** if not okay, blank or empty .txtTabOne.Value and then .txtTabOne.Setfocus

.txtTabTwo.When
return !empty(.txtTabOne.Value)