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In the following sample, VALID clause is not fired when the combobox losts the focus:

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#include "Fivewin.ch"


FUNCTION MAIN()

    LOCAL oDlg

    LOCAL oCbx, cVar := SPACE( 20 )

    DEFINE DIALOG oDlg

    @ 1, 1 COMBOBOX oCbx VAR cVar;
           ITEMS { "First", "Second", "Third" };
           STYLE CBS_DROPDOWN;
           VALID ( MSGINFO( "Valid" ), .T. )

    @ 3, 1 BUTTON "&Close" ACTION oDlg:End()

    ACTIVATE DIALOG oDlg;
             CENTER

    RETURN NIL

EMG

Enrico Maria Giordano wrote:In the following sample, VALID clause is not fired when the combobox losts the focus

Enrico,
not fired when the combobox lost the focus but fired when the button lost the focus!

Enrico,

I'm afraid I can't help. I gave up on valid's with comboboxes about 10 years ago after raising the problem many times. I came up with a fix back then (IIRC it required change to CONTROL and also to DEFAULT method in COMBOBOX.prg) but I can no longer find it and it got broken in a subsequent upgrade anyway. I'm not convinced valid on a combobox (without modifications) has ever completely worked (although I could be wrong).

As an aside, although I can confirm the bug you reported, I suggest you avoid using MSGINFO() to test for a VALID as that can shift the focus to the MSGINFO(). I use something like MSGBEEP() instead.

No problem friends. I reported it only for Antonio. I don't need that fix at all.

EMG

Theoretically it seems one would not need to validate a combobox selection since only valid options are available in the list.

If you need to call a codeblock for some other use, perhaps you could use bLostFocus.

James

Please note that the combobox in my sample is a CBS_DROPDOWN one.

EMG

Enrico,

>Please note that the combobox in my sample is a CBS_DROPDOWN one.

Ops!

James

Any news?

EMG