The problem with that, Nick, is that you might not always need to refresh the view when Refreshing the form and your app will slow down a lot. I guess in VFP6 you could add _Assign code to the Control.Values that would fire a requery as needed.

>I usually do not setup the view for it - I put the code like this into textbox.Refresh()
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>LOCAL array laTotal[1]
>laTotal[1] = 0
>SELECT SUM(amount) FROM myView as Total
>INTO array laTotal
>this.value = laTotal[1]
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>Just my 0.02c CDN :)
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>Nick
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>>Hi Peter ---
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>>There is a really simple way of doing it. Create a view that queries your view; ie, CREATE VIEW subtot AS SELECT SUM(amount) AS subtot FROM myview. Then bind a disabled or read-only textbox to subtot.subtot and REQUERY() subtot and subtot-bound control refresh() whereever the original view can be modified.
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>>>I have a local view of account detail items which I use with a codebook/VFE app. I have a child grid based on the view which works well. The user can scroll up and down to see all of the items (or just the open items) on the account.
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>>>Now I would like to add a running balance to the view.
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>>>So far I've added a dummy field to the view: 000000.00 as yBalance. After I populate the view, I run a scan loop to calculate the balance and plug it in to the yBalance field. This works fine from the command prompt. BTW, I found out that if I defined the field as "0.00" it would not contain more than 3 digits.
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>>>But now when I use the grid in my form I get the message "cannot update the cursor." I get this not only on the REPLACE statement within the scan loop but on the REQUERY() statement before the scan loop.
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>>>Any one have suggestions on the right way to do this?
>>>
>>>Peter Robinson