>Can any one tell me why this code will fail with out the appended "A" to lckey. CustView.CustId is a unique id field. Also I notice that a space is appended to the first line for lcKey???
>What I am trying to do is to put the customer Id into the key of the treeview so when i click on the node i can show the customer info in a window...
>
>The error is invald key from nodes
>
>

>WITH This
>  .oleTreeview.ImageList = .oleImagesList
>  FOR lnCnt = 65 TO 90
>    .oleTreeview.Nodes.Add(,,CHR(lnCnt),CHR(lnCnt),"Closed","Open")
>    DO WHILE ALLTRIM(LEFT(CustView.LName,1)) = CHR(lnCnt)
>      * lcKey = ALLTRIM(CustView.CustId)
>      * The above line will give an error and the below does not
>      lcKey = ALLTRIM(CustView.CustId)+'A'
>      lcText = ALLTRIM(CustView.LName)
>      .oleTreeview.Nodes.Add(CHR(lnCnt),4 ,lcKey, lcText)
>      SKIP
>    ENDDO
>  ENDFOR
>ENDWITH
>

>Thanks

Could it be because lckey is initialized as a number instead of a character, but when you add the 'A' it is evaluated to a character.

My 2 cents