There's another litte idea I have ( private/local variable conflict )

Can you post the full code of

(1) where you assign the value
(2) the timer_assign method
(3) timer event

It may be interesting to actually find out what is happening.
Gregory

>Nope. There's only 1 table open as I'm still building the class and the fields in there aren't even remotely close.
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>The assign method simply isn't working. There's probably a bug in VFP having to do with assigning objects to other objects or somesuch.
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>At any rate, I'm not going to waste time on it when it works just fine without the assign method. ACCESS/ASSIGN is a handy idea, but nothing that can't be replaced with other methods.
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>Thanks for your help,
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>Michelle
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>>it's weird
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>>the only obvious possibility left is that you have a current alias with a field name that is equal to the parameter name of the assign method
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>>like tablesomething.FieldName && and alias() = tablesomething
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>>ppp_assign
>>lparameters FieldName &&
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>>What if you use m.FieldName in the assign method ??
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>>or change the parameter name to something like xyz12345 eg
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>>I'm out of ideas ...
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