>Thanks very much! That little line was obviously the problem.
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>Man! some of these little things are really dificult to track through the debugger. Took me forever just to notice the recordsource discrepancy. Then my brains were so fried, I couldn't think to put quotes in the recordsource property.
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>Now after a full day of hair pulling I'll glue it back for the next hair pulling session. :)
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>Thanks

If RecordSource is empty, VFP fill it with the active Alias when grid.Init is fired.

This depends on a horrible design,
before BROWSE has been drawn,
and after the same code it has been used for creating the class grid.
Terrible.