Hi Nicky.

>> I have then set the rowsource to operator_cur, this works quite well, but someone here has told me this isn;t very good as it doesn't follow the conventions of other languages ie cursors are always thought to be readonly, what are your thoughts ??????? <<


I think that the most important thing is that it works. Once you have something working correctly, you can start thinking about improving/optimizing it.

Just my $.02

Marcia