>>>>>>What I want to check for, is if the user started to edit some fields before I do the tablerevert() on a newly appended record.
>>>>>Timothy,
>>>>>
>>>>>You need to check out GetFldState(-1) to find out what has been changed or edited by the user on the new record.
>>>>
>>>>Well the prob I'm having is this. A new record is appended with the
>>>>=cursorsetprop("buffering",2), a field is automatically replaced with a control # and then, for testing, I click cmdbutton 'Quit' which has this code in it: ?GETFLDSTATE(-1)
>>>>and the result is '1111111111111111111111' ALL ONES!
>>>>This cannot be right!
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>Timothy,
>
>When you call getfldstate with a -1 as the parameter what you get is a character string with the first digit representing the table status followed by one digit for the status of each field.
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>Where a 1 = No Change
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> 2 = The field was edited or the deletion status of the record was changed.
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> 3 = A record was appended but the field was not edited and the deletion status was not changed.
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> 4 = A record was appended and the field was edited or the deletion status of the record was changed.
>
>Mark A. Struck

this seems to make sense. There is a double standard for records that are appended as opposed to existing records. Looks like I'll have to increase my code on the "Save" cmdbutton to check for this!!!!!