>Thanks for the help, Jim.
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>I'm checking GETFLDSTATE after the field of the newly appended record has been edited... a command button on the form checks GETFLDSTATE.
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>I guess the problem is that I haven't really lost focus yet, but my code seems to work for edited fields of existing records, it's just not working for edited fields of newly appended records!
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>David Turnedge

David,

If the command button is in the form then the problem I described does not apply to you. The problem I described only applies if the command button is in a toolbar.

I just created a simple form with one textbox on it. Put a table in the DE and set the table to Optimistic Row buffering. I appended a new record in teh fomr's Init. I then ran the form adn typed into the textbox and clicked a commadn button that did a wait window GetFldState(-1). The string had a 4 for the field I had edited.

If yours is still mot working there is something else going on. Try creating a new fomr and move stuff into it gradually until the getfldstate() fails for you. The last thing you added in is the most probable culprit.