VFP offers mthods for handling data that are better than SCATTER / GATHER you can directly bound controls to the underlying table or view and let the buffering do the work for you I didn't understand exactly what you are doing now though... IAC primary key violation means that you are trying to add a key that already exists in the table Arnon > >I began to work with buffermode at last saturday and i´m having any >problems. > Before i was using the follow sintax > > IF SEEK(EXPRESSION,"TABLE", "INDEX") > SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO > ELSE > SCATTER FIELDS ... MEMVAR MEMO BLANK > ENDIF > .... > > But now the VFP shows me a message uniqueness of "MALA.COD_CLI" >violeted > OBS: MALA=TABLE, COD_CLI=INDEX(PRIMARY KEY) > How i have to do? > > Thanks > Anderson Reis Girardi > ander@net1.com.br > >