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>Chuck Urwiler wrote a fabulous and very extensive (meaning very long) article on CursorAdapter for the upcoming special issue of CoDe Magazine about VFP8. This issue is being printed today and will be mailed out approximately 3 weeks from now.
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>Many of your questions will be answered then.

That good news indeed! Your last plug whet my appetite and now I'm drooling.

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>Meanwhile, several of the items you highlighted refer to using schemas to define the structure of cursors instead of allowing the CA to define them automatically. This gives great flexibility and, when combined with the ability to specify functions to transform certain fields, gives you workarounds for just about any data format problems.

Yes, I have caught that implication.
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>Just keep digging, Jim, and experimenting, and also re-read many of the posts Mark McCasland has made here about CA over the past couple of months.

The digging continues. But, for instance, I have no idea what it means to "attach" or "detach" a cursor and I sure don't want to 'define' that myself because I'm bound to be wrong.

Thanks David.