>>Hi all,
>>
>>My users are getting an "Attempting to lock ... Esc to continue" error
>>message. This is happening after changing a feild in a grid. The
>>grid's record source is a view and it is buffered. Multilocks is on,
>>and set reprocess it set to automatic. These setting are in the init
>>of the form.
>>
>>Everywhere I do a rlock() I also do an unlock all. If the rlock() is
>>in an if statement the unlock all is after the endif. I have looked
>>and looked for the cause of this problem but have not found anything.
>>
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>What are you using RLOCK() with views for in the first place? You shouldn't ever have to do this.

That is part of the problem, I am looking at the code and there are only 2
rlocks in the screen, One in the add to increment the PK (in a system table)
the other would not come into play in the above situation.

Does tableupdate perform a lock?

Also I think I understand why you would say never use rlock with views but I
am new to views so to make sure I understand. Is it because views are just
a tempary copy of the data stored on the tmpfiles directory and therefore
the user has exclusive use and would not need to lock?

Thanks for your help

Jeff