>It just seems that creating a parameterized view for something as
>simple as displaying a child table is defeating the purpose of
>being able to create relationships between tables in VFP.

Right, but you don't just want to relate the tables, you want to relate
them _and_ order the child.

>Basing the grid on a select into a cursor means that I can't edit the
>data, it is read only.

Yes, but if you create a temp cursor, you can APPEND FROM the results of
the SELECT statement. CREATE CURSOR results in a read/write cursor...

>I am not criticising your answers, but merely stating why I can't use
>them or think they shouldn't be used in my circumstance.

Of course: no offense taken. :-)