>>At this point there are no records displayed in the grid. The cursor has the expected number of records. If I press a navigation button the grid displays the correct recordset. I put a KEYBOARD command at the end of the method and it's working but I would appreciate an explanation as to why I need to do that.
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>>The cursor is created by an SQLEXEC and the buffering is whatever the default would be for that (I think 3).
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>>Thanks to all.................Rich
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>There is a VFP bug.
>if the focus is on the grid and it is empty,
>remains empty and does not show the records.
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>Grid.Refresh not load the grid lines.

You're right. That was the problem.

I had eventually figured that out and fixed the problem before reading your post but I appreciate your help nonetheless.