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>>>>I am sure that VFP team will fix it in version 10.0 :).
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>>>It's not a bug. The structure of cursors can not be modified by a program, tables' can.
>>>
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>>I am not saying it is a bug or not. But the fact is that you CAN change the structure of a cursor using ALTER TABLE CursorName when the column is not longer than 10 characters.
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>You are right, I should have rechecked and go deeper. As long as there are no extended field names, the cursor can be altered freely.
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>For instance,
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>CREATE CURSOR CursorName (D1 C(10), D2 C(10))
>ALTER TABLE CursorName RENAME D1 TO D1234567890
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>is allowed, but
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>CREATE CURSOR CursorName (D1 C(10), D2 C(10))
>ALTER TABLE CursorName RENAME D1 TO D1234567890
>ALTER TABLE CursorName RENAME D2 TO D_1234567890
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>raises an error (on the second ALTER), and so does
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>CREATE CURSOR CursorName (D1 C(10), D1234567890 C(10))
>ALTER TABLE CursorName RENAME D1 TO D2
>
Thank you for confirming this "limitation"
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