>Have you any of you used value_assign() with view fields? It seems to really not work well with VFP.
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>We had an app where I added value_assign() to handle some automatic field encryption, and in the process it broke a dozen other things or more. We wound up having to create a separate class for encryption and put value_assign there and not use it on the original class because places where read-only views are specified into those textbox controls, it was thinking the data had changed and was generating the error 2072 -- Cursor cannot be modified because it contains an unsaved record.
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>Seems to me to be a bug in VFP, but one we've had to workaround regardless.
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>Anybody else seen this?
Rick, there are a few warnings about Assign and Access methods on VFP's documentation. In one of them:
Visual FoxPro does not support the Assign method for the Value property for controls [...].
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António Tavares Lopes