>>Hi, I have a TextBox with a ControlSource that doesn't exist - no table is open; there is no table in the DataEnvironment, Form.Load() and Form.Init() are empty, and the form is not based on any class other than "Form" itself.
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>>And yet, instead of getting the expected error message about the non-existant field, the data I type in mysteriously gets saved - when I get back to the form, it is right there.
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>>Is this something with the Registry that I didn't know about?
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>>I just type some text as the ControlSource; for example, "aaa".
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>Did you try closing VFP and re-opening? If you do so, are the data you typed still there?
Indeed, the data disappears after closing VFP.
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