>>When adding a new record, all I want to do is SCATTER. If I want to
>>SAVE, then I will GATHER. If I do not want to save, then I will do nothing.
>>Am I not using =cursorsetprop() correct?
>Robert,
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>If you are using scatter and gather then you are using the old FP 2.x way of buffering data edits. If you want to use buffering in VFP then don't bother with the scatter and gather stuff. I would suggest chosing to do this one way or the other.
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>First off your cursorsetprop function call is not complete, it does not specify the alias that you want to set the property for and if the wrong work area is selected you may be setting buffering in the wrong place. Secondly, record buffering will casue VFP to automatically issue a tableupdate if the record pointer is moved in the buffered work area, table buffering does not do this and requires you to do the tableupdate explicitly instead.

thanks Jim - that was a great answer.. do you have the time to give me a
code example of what you are talking about?