Hi,
I am asking this for my curiosity.
a) Dragan, If u are developing a application where diferent currencies are involved would u use a numeric data type or a currency data type.
b) Knowing the pros & cons of using a currency data type and if your user wants to view currency data in 2 decimal digits or 3 decimal digits instead of 4, what would u do?
c) Are all the applications developed in VFP using currency datatype display 4 decimal digits. (pls note :i am only saying about displaying the figures.)

sanjay.

>>Hi,
>>I am having a small difficulty. I have a currency field which is displayed on the form in a text box but this field would not obey

Set Decimals To 2
>>Set fixed On

setting. The only way i can control the display is by changing the textbox format property to $999,999,999.99 and than it would show me values in 2 decimal digits.
>>How can i make Set Decimal setting effective on currency fields?
>
>Vlad has already told you the best things to do, I'll only give you the reasons: currency fields are basically integers, which hold the value multiplied by 10000. Whenever such a value is used in calculation, it's practically divided by 10000 (OK, I don't believe they really multiply and divide each time, but that's the effect), so it always has four decimals. The "Set decimals" applies to regular numbers which have variable number of decimals; this one is fixed.