Just as I was posting more stuff to look at :-)
What exactly was the error and where? I'm curious.
>OK. I got it figured out. In the professional jargon it came under the category of REALLY, REALLY STUPID CODING ERROR. But I probably would not have seen it as quickly except for your insightful analyses.
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>Thanks John and Nancy for your thoughtful responses.
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>Regards,
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>JME
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>>I really hate it when my programs go on vacation without me. And I suspect they get to go much nicer places than I do.
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>>Would you look at this grid in the classbrowser and post the code for it? Of course, I hope you've already solved it by now ;-)
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>>Or alternately, have you tried putting a SUSPEND in one of the controls clicks? (Probably, I would imagine)
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>>>Yep, it is on vacation. I wish I was.
>>>AllowAddNew is .F. because I do not want users adding records except through the external CommandButton for that purpose. This button works in that when pressed a new record is indeed added and certain fields are filled in correctly. The new record appears in the grid as expected -- iow, the grid's record source is updated correctly
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>>>I have clicked on every part of the grid, including on the filled rows. It is acting as though it were disabled, but enabled is .T. in the watch window.
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