Take a look at the GeteNextModified() example in VFP9 help. When you are on a modified record, you should see oldval() and curval() reflect the correct values, providing you are using Optimistic buffering.

Hank

>I am struggling with a buffering problem and know there must be a switch somewhere I"m missing and hoping it's not a bug:
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>1. open a table within my program, set multilocks on, set cursorsetprop("buffering",5,"mytable")
>2. set the curval("myfield","mytable") and oldval("myfield","mytable") up in debug window.
>3. Make a change and move fields and/or records. The data doesn't show a change in the curval() function.
>if I issue a tableupdate command, then everything updates correctly.
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>do the curval and oldval functions not work in a browse or grid? Is there another switch/function I'm missing to make this work?