Bob,

Absolutely right if you are only using one table and not aggregating anything.

I guess I use multiple tables so often that I forget that one.


>I think you would need to do:
>
>SELECT ... INTO CURSOR MyCursor NOFILTER
>USE (dbf(MyCursor)) SHARED AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS MyWritableCursor
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>BOb
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>
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>>Mohammed,
>>
>>The way to make a cursor writable is

>>SELECT ... INTO CURSOR MyCursor
>>USE MyCursor SHARED AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS MyWritableCursor

but as the others have said, this is not really what you want to do.
>>
>>In VFP7 there will be a READWRITE clause in the SELECT statement which will automatically make the resulting cursor writable.
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi, All
>>>
>>>I am developing my first application under visual foxpro 6.0. I usually use clarion under dos. I made a grid control to display a result of SELECT command it works fine. but, it does not allow me to edit any field in the grid control . I made sure that the read only is off and I went all over the step again and again but I could not know what's wrong. can anybody help me to edit to the table directly from the grid control ?
>>>
>>>thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>M. Sameer