validateOnChange and required property

[acarur01]

Just want to verify a behaviour - if the listgrid says to not validate on change, normally validations are not run except when the required flag is turned on for a field. Isn't this viewed as inconsistent? Checking for requirement of a value is technically a validation. OR is the required flag meant to overwrite validateOnChange property of the listgrid for that field?

isc.ListGrid.create({
    ID: "countryList",
    width:550, height:224, alternateRecordStyles:true, cellHeight:22,validateOnChange:true,
    // use server-side dataSource so edits are retained across page transitions
    dataSource: countryDS,
    // display a subset of fields from the datasource
    fields:[
        {name:"countryCode", title:"Flag", width:40, type:"image", imageURLPrefix:"flags/16/", imageURLSuffix:".png", canEdit:false},
        {name:"countryName",required:true},
        {name:"continent"},
        {name:"member_g8"},
        {name:"population", formatCellValue:"isc.Format.toUSString(value);"},
        {name:"independence"}
    ],
    autoFetchData: true,
    canEdit: true,
    editEvent: "click"
})

[Isomorphic]

If "required" validators were run all required fields would show errors as soon as you typed anything into any field - clearly undesirable - the intent of require is to make sure the user has filled in required fields when the user actually tries to save, so that's when it's run.