>>I was wondering why the deleted records are still showing in the table.
>>The following are the codes that I put at "click" event of my delete command button.
>>I am sure the deletions were successful since when I exited my program and did a
>>pack and re-index to the resulting table, those records that were deleted thru my
>>program were gone. But why were they still showing in the table when I was running
>>the program, could somebody please help?
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>The controls are still bound to the current record, even though it's deleted, because you're sitting on it. You could GoTo [recno() of a deleted record] and it would show up. Deleted records (with Deleted On) are invisible any way you move the record pointer, except for GoTo and no motion at all.
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>So, you got to move off the deleted records. As to how, there's a variety of ways; I'm using this
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locate rest
>if not found()
>   locate
>endif

>I.e. I go to the next record; if I deleted the last one, I go top. I know, going to the previous record would be more logical - but then I'm doing this in places where I have only a few records, so jumping to top of the grid doesn't matter much.


Dragan,

Seems like you didn't read this message carefully :) See the code with skip -1. I bet, that the form has set deleted off (default setting), that's why the deleted records are visible.