Petras:

>The checkbox is the last column on a grid whose recordsource is a VFP cursor. I've previously found that having a select statement for a VFP cursor with ".F. as check" allowed the user to check/uncheck although the cursor is read-only. Now that the remote database does not have logical fields/literals, I tried "0 as check" and failed. The value of the checkbox(VFP base class) is always initially set by the cursor's select statement.
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Sounds like you need an updateable view? Or SELECT ...INTO DBF? If you are posting the info back to the back-end, an updateable view is the best way to go. If you are merely pulling, letting the user change it, and then throwing it away, you can SELECT ... INTO DBF.