>>Does anyone know if GETNEXTMODIFIED() detects the addition of (maybe several) records to a buffered table, obviously, before TableUpdate() is issued?
>>
>>The new records will have had fields filled in before saving.
>>
>>'ppreciate it
>>
>>Terry
>
>Yes:
>

>CLEAR
>CREATE CURSOR crsTest (Fld1 I)
>FOR asd = 1 TO 20
>    INSERT INTO crsTest VALUES (asd)
>NEXT
>GO TOP
>CURSORSETPROP("Buffering",5)
>? [No changes],GETNEXTMODIFIED(0)
>15
>REPLACE Fld1 WITH 77
>GO TOP
>? [Record 15 is changed],GETNEXTMODIFIED(0)
>TABLEREVERT(.t.)
>GO TOP
>? [Reverted table],GETNEXTMODIFIED(0)
>13
>REPLACE Fld1 WITH 77
>APPEND BLANK
>GO TOP
>ln = GETNEXTMODIFIED(0)
>SCAN WHILE ln # 0
>     ? [Record ]+TRANSFORM(ln)+[ is changed],ln
>     ln = GETNEXTMODIFIED(ln)
>ENDSCAN
>USE IN crsTest
>

Hi BB, old mate

Thanks. Yes I was doing some experimention myself along the lines of my scenario:

I have free tables, belonging to an FPD system, so I can't use trans .. end trans. In one I create a new rec, then there may need to be up to 3 other recs associated with it. I want to pass this table to my GP "save" class, which uses GetNextMod().

Now I manually append 3 new recs, issue x = GetNextMod(), which returns -1, naturally (the other 2 new recs' temp. nos. are -2 and -3). I GOTO x, which takes me to the 1st of the 3 new recs (-1). I alter a field and issue
x = GetNextMod() again. It returns -1 and I'm still on the same record. No matter how many new recs I ammend it always returns -1.

Now if I were to tableu() THEN alter the fields, I'm sure GetNextMod() would return each amended new rec's official recno().

So, in essence, I need to create a series of new recs and save them all at the same time, as they're all assoc. with each other. But I don't think my save class was built for this scenario.