[RESOLVED] validation question

[bhs00]

if focus is currently on control A and the user clicks on control B. What property of what control needs to be set for control A to be validated?

[gavio]

A.CausesValidation = True

[bushmobile]

B.CausesValidation = True

[bhs00]

so the CausesValidation property of control A needs to be = True?

[Hack]

What controls are you using?

By default, the CausesValidation property is set to true on all textboxes and command buttons (and probably others as well.)

[bhs00]

clicking a control button

[Hack]

clicking a control button

You want to validate a control button's click?

[bushmobile]

so the CausesValidation property of control A needs to be = True?

no (but as Hack said, it's normally defaults to True). If a control has CausesValidation = True, then before it's due to receive focus, it fires the _Validate event in the control that has just lost focus, geddit?

[Hack]

If a control has CausesValidation = True, then before it's due to receive focus, it fires the _Validate event in the control that has just lost focus, geddit?

Which, in turn, won't do anything unless you have code in the controls validate event.

(Command Buttons don't have a Validate Event so it has always made me giggle that it is a CausesValidation property. )

[bushmobile]

(Command Buttons don't have a Validate Event so it has always made me giggle that it is a CausesValidation property. )

CausesValidation has no bearing on the button (i.e. on itself), only on the control that the button gains focus from, which may very well have a _Validate event.