>>>Hi,
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>>>I have a textbox "bound" to a cursor/view. I put bound in quotation marks because I don't want to use the ControlSource of the text box. Instead the "binding" has to be done in code. So that every time the record pointer moves, a new value appears in the text box. Natural thing would be to put this code in the Refresh method of the text box. But I think that Refresh would fire too often; even when the record pointer has not moved. What other method would you recommend to use for this purpose? TIA.
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>>Use valid() method.
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>Would Valid() automatically fire on every record pointer move?

No, I don't think it would. Why don't you just bind right after the record pointer moves. I am assuming, of course, that your code is aware of when the pointer moves.

But then again, I'm a little confused as to why you don't bind to the table field at the get-go and then the form level refresh would handle the textbox level, unless you're actually changing the field the textbox is bound to, and again - why not do the binding there, since you KNOW things have changed.