You were right Erik... Totally forgot about an old section of code
in the class "when" event. I meant to get rid of it when I started using
getfldstate but forgot to. I have never used getfldstate before this
and wasn't sure how it acted. I appreciate you help!

Joe

>>>>Using vfp5...
>>>>
>>>>It appears that getfldstate returns that a field has changed even though
>>>>all that happened was that it received focus. No actual data has
>>>>changed. Is this true?
>>>
>>>I don't have VFP 5 to test with anymore, but I'm pretty sure it's not true. It's sure not true in VFP 6 and 7. This would have screwed up my framework pretty good.
>>>
>>>Are you sure there is no class level code that's doing a REPLACE? Simply adding a Value_Assign method, for instance will do this... but that's VFP 6.
>>
>>In my "Save" button code....
>>
>>if getfldstate('prodname','products')<> 1 then
>> replace products.dpnamechg with date()
>>endif
>>
>>If I click the cursor in the textbox with
>>controlsource=products.prodname before clicking
>>"Save", getfldstate returns a change.
>
>I've never seen this behavior. Can you reproduce it in a simplified scenario? IOW, create an empty baseclass form, put one table in the DE, and put one base class textbox on the form bound to a field in the table. Then put a command button on the form that does a:
>
>MESSAGEBOX(GETFLDSTATE(-1))
>
>Click in the textbox and the click the button.
>In my tests, I don't get what you are reporting, but like I said, I'm using a later version of VFP.