I'm not sure what 'the cursor came up behind the fields' means. Can you elaborate?
Did you try to issue SET CURSOR ON ?

>The more I think about it, the more I think that I AM going to have to convert the legacy app to VFP because my framework uses autom-incrementing PKs and I sure don't wat to have to mess with all that old nasty legacy code. In my testing, the biggest problem I came up against is that the cursor came up behind the fields so the users had no clue where they were typing. I tried changing the picture clauses to use @K, but that only worked if there was data in the field. You see, the entire thing was done with @SAY and @GET - no use of the 2.x power tools at all. Do you know of any workaround for the "disappearing cursor goes behind the @GET field. If I could get around that, the conversion to VFP would not be such a problem.