Nancy,

Thanks for clarifying it for me. I want to display my own error message instead of VFP default if the user enters an invalid date. I believe, Herman's code should work for me.

>Nadya -
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>>>in operation when invalid date is entered a give 'Invalid date' mesage in upper right corner. this is annoin and i want to replace it with my message end error rutine. how to do this. set notify is off. i tried with valid event but don works.
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>>>Thanks
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>>Hi,
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>>I am wondering if we have anything now with VFP9 or we still have to do lots of tricks for solving such a simple problem with invalid date?
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>The original poster was asking about invalid date, which simply requires SET NOTIFY OFF. If you mean the issue Jon's mentions, that's a message that occurs when using SET DATE SHORT. All you have to do there is trap the error in the form's error method (since the textbox error method doesn't catch it). I only have a beta of 9 installed here, so I'll leave you to investigate whether that's been changed in 9.0. Here's an example error trapping:
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>LPARAMETERS nError, cMethod, nLine
>IF nError = 2034 && Date/datetime evaluated to an invalid value.
>	MESSAGEBOX('Please enter a valid date',0+16,"Error in date entry",5000)
>ENDIF
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