Form.Dirty is false when it should be true

Question

I notice that in one of my forms (limited by request) when I do this code:

Private Sub Form_Dirty(Cancel As Integer) MsgBox Me.Form.Dirty End Sub 

A true value should appear because this is an onDirty event, right? But actually I get a "lie". Why?

Answer 1

This is because a dirty event is where you can undo a change and discard it. After a dirty event, the form actually becomes marked as dirty. For example, the event chain for a text field is

KeyDown> KeyPress> BeforeInsert> Dirty> KeyUp

Hope this helps