Good :) Reading your previous message I started to think what you want was different.
Cetin

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>varread() did it.
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>In the Field Validation Rule, I have
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>   fieldrule(VARREAD())
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>And in fieldrule.prg I have
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>  parameter cNothing
>  ? cNothing
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>And now when I modify and then leave a field, I can see what it is. Perfect! Now I can change fieldrule.prg to be a generic handler (some do case stuph depending on the value of cNothing) , and can make it change certain fields (proper on some names etc) as they hit the table....
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>Thanks!