Hello Walter

If I understand you correctly, you want to be able to change the return value of a function, and want your change to update the input of the function? That is simply impossible in all languages I have heard of.

If you have x=function(y), you can change y, but not x. In other words, x is read only.

>When desiging a view and have the following expression as one of the fields:
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PADR(MyTable.MyMemoField,200) As MyCharacterfield

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>it is impossible te make this field updatable within the query designer. When I manually set updatable to .T. with changing the the DBSETPROP line into
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DBSetProp(ThisView+".MyCharacteField","Field","Updatable",.T.)

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>within the SQL window, it's automatically reset when I save the View. The only workarround is to bypass the view designer and use a PRG to define the view programtically.
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>Any comments ?
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>Walter,