I know that it returns NULL. However, GetFieldState is a custom method of the cCursor class in the MereMortals. And it returns empty string in this case. I believe, it should return NULL or in the method IsNewAndEmpty we should check for empty(this.GetFieldState(-1)) and not for IsNull as the code currently does.

>Nadya,
>GetFldState() returns .NULL. to me:
>

>CREATE TABLE test (test N(1))
>USE
>USE test
>SET MULTILOCKS ON
>CURSORSETPROP("Buffering",5)
>? GETFLDSTATE(-1)
>? GETFLDSTATE(1)
>