>I wrote a program in vfp50. When I add a record using table
>buffering, I setfocus to the first field. That works great as long
>as there are records in the table. If there are not any records
>in the table, and I try to APPEND BLANK the first record, my setfocus does not work. I can not even click the mouse to get a cursor. It is like to FORM locks up. any ideas?

It sounds more like no record has been appended.