depends...
i've had clients who requested that a specific field was given focus after they do anything on the toolbar. all what you're used to, i guess... if you have a std method that is called from each button (i have one to check for data edits), it's really easy to add this to the end...
>Dave
>I had a horrible feeling that yr answer #2 (allready tried #1) would be the sort of monster kludge I would have to settle for (I am not a happy bunny)
>8¬(
>Fox complaints forum please take note!
>
>I really hoped there was a nice straightforward property "RememberOldRecord" that I could set to .F. Guess I'm greener than I thought, or not sufficiently sceptic!
>
>Many thanks.
>AnG
>
>>2 options:
>>1. force a grid refresh when the record pointer has moved in the parent table.
>>2. when the record pointer has moved in the parent table, do a thisformset.form1.item1.setfocus where item1 isn't the grid.