Nadya,

this is a way to go, I thought about before, but I find it to slow.
And to move record pointer - No No Noooooooo. I work with GRID's BEFORErowCOLCHANGE, this like to fire on reasons I dident like to think of. And there is code fired from this event ....

I have a lot of easy-to-access filters controled by TriState-Check buttons on my grids and did not want to bore people more than I need.

I've tried

...
*something to collect filter setting like shown by you

lcAct_Alias = ALIAS()
lcField     = FIELD(1)
SELECT &lcField;
 FROM &lcAct_Alias;
 TO SCREEN NOCONSOLE;
 &lcWhere

lnRecCount = _TALLY
...

but this give problems with FoxPro's "==" Operator wich is different on SET FILTER and SELECT SQL.

I guess this will also occur with other SQL commands.

Ive also tried

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COPY TO Delete_Me
*Not documented, but influenced by SET FILTER and I guess by SET ORDER
USE Delete_Me IN 0
lnRecCount = RECCOUNT()
USE
DELETE FIELE Delete_Me.*
...

but this is also a kludge.

For some actions the access is CLICK-CLICK on a CHECKBOX to reach a TRISTATE (it's simple a cycle off - on - not - off), every CLICK changes the filter, every change of filter need to be count, change of filter changes display and remember we use this close - to - assembler - language that is fast on build in commands and so slow in loops and jumps.

Thank you for help

a nice weekend to everybody and goodbye
Lutz