Hi Jimmy. Make the debugger your friend, it is very useful not only for debugging but for testing out how VFP does things and for getting a grip the scoping of variables.

For info on using the debugger see the VFP help and fox.wikis.com

>Debugger (which i'm not really famaliar with) only gives locals for the spinner as my entire database. I'm guessing it's trying to give me a clue?
>I'm also guessing that you're saying that the problem is in some of my function code somewhere and debugger is going to help me find it?
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>>>If the value in Spinner1 is chosen first, then the value of other controls, the value in Spinner1 interactively changes back to zero. what could be causing this?
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>>Put SET STEP ON in the lost focus of spinner. Then step through the code and monitor the value of the spinner. Also, in the debugger you can set a breakpoint on the value of thisform.spinner1.value and the code will halt when the value changes.