g'day John,
Well it sucks, but at least i've not lost the plot. I always think that if you have to stand on your head and look through a mirror to fix something, you're doing something wrong.

Thanks for warning on the General field, esp. since I use GetFldState() quite a bit in some of my stuff.

>Hi dave,
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>You almost have to do an explicit REPLACE....sucks, I know.
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>Want to see worse? Use an OLEBoundControl with a General field. The minute you bind the control to the source, the source registers a change with GETFLDSTATE()....Ack!
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>>An object (say oX) will update its value from the control source when an oX.refresh() is called.
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>>How do you force an objects to update the contrl source when the value changes?
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>>I ask because if I test the control source value in the oX.interactivechange() method, its value hasn't necessarily been updated to equal the oX.value
>>This is nasty if my .interactivechange method calls a form method which expects the updated value to be there.
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>>My current fix is to explicitly update the control source in the interactivechange() method. But that seems an odd thing to do!
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>>What do you reckon?