Peter ---

I'm glad that worked but you shouldn't have to do that. Take some time and review the properties for the view. You can use GENDBC, which ships with VFP, to get a list of property settings.


>John,
>I now set the buffering for the view manually in the Init of the form and all is fine
>//Regards
>Pete Kane
>
>>Try your form.BufferMode setting. Ensure it's 2 (optimistic).
>>
>>
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>>>Hello John,
>>>issuing the commands from the command window works fine, when I tried it from my form zilch ( no update, no error ), I set the buffering from within the DE that's the only difference I can note
>>>Regards
>>>Pete