I don't know Delphi well (I still plan to learn it, eventually), but I was favorably impressed by the fact that many things can be done with virtually no coding, that do require coding (sometimes, lots of it!) in VFP.

OTOH, these details are usually taken care of in major frameworks. I strongly recommend you seriously take a look at some frameworks. (In Delphi, almost everything you need is already included in the product, AFAIK.)

If you don't use a framework, you have to code this yourself. This can't be done simply by setting properties - you have to change the value of the variable every time you move the parent record.

Another thing you have to code yourself is to insert the "parent" field in the child table, when adding records.

Regards, Hilmar.

>I use foxpro 7. I know that you have to use a ? mark. But how do i pass the parameter of the master table?
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>In delphi the only thing i had to do is to define the mastertable in the object inspector. From the mastertable the value of 'masterID' is being retrieved.
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>So i did not have to enter a single line of code. Of cause Foxpro is a dedicated database development enviroment, while Delphi is not.
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>So i think it must be possible i hope. I was already suprised that Foxpro viewdesigner is not able to handle complicated Query statements.
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>Quite dissapointing for a dedicated database development enviroment...
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>Groetjes
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>Harry O