>>>Hello Tamar,
>>>
>>>what are you using as replacement?
>>>
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>>In my case, I was using it pretty much always after a query, so just replaced with RECCOUNT().
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>I got to the practice of storing _tally into a variable or property immediately after the statement which did what I need to _tally for. Few lines later it may be wrong, for whichever reason - and timers aren't the only thing. It may be a slightly complicated SKIPFOR expression, or a grid refresh or who knows what code. Also, I've noticed that in VFP9 _tally behaves differently in some situations than it behaved in all previous versions. Can't remember what it was - it's been a dozen years - but there WAS something which made me rely on it less and less.
I always thought _TALLY was a cool name for a variable.
"Hey Mr. Tally Man, tally me bananas..."I came across a video a few years back about a wooden boat builder. At the end of the video when the boat is built and in use, he describes what it's like tonging for oysters. He says after the day's haul, you go to the tally board and weigh out your catch. Quite an interesting associated memory there when he called it the "tally board":
From 1981: Billy Moore: Chesapeake Boatbuilder
Begins at 26:14 into the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STGwyif5K5M&t=26m14sAnother interesting wooden boat building video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIs-9wlaV4
