Hi Al,

>>If I think of dates alone, you'd either need a format independant on any country specific formatting or you'd need to define that format too.
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>STRICTDATE would work fine.

>>I don't feel you thought about this thoroughly enough.
>Actually, in addition to the points above I've been letting this idea roll around in the back of my mind for a couple of days. The conclusion I've reached is actually pretty simple: property values in the property sheet should appear the same way they do in the debugger.

the way lcS = [Ha"llo] is shown in the debugger creates small WTF moments as well.
Not sure with (XML to be used in properties as well) which is more of a burden.
And let us not talk about dates when set date to another locale -
is it helpful the value changes when the line gets the focus in the debugger ?
At least the with the current solution there is only one change,
if you use dots as date spearators for instance <g>.

The addition of a Type Column, which the user can override,
if the value is not a string or the datatype vfp expects might have been more benficial -
but without real benefits from optional static typing?

Guess there is no really good solution here for our fox...

regards

thomas