>Thanks Hilmar for all your help and testing. Yes I have been trying some similar solutions.
Just a few quick tests, in part because I found the problem interesting. There were some promising ideas, but unfortunately, none of them worked.
Some of the other threads mention CursorAdapter - I am not sure whether this works, but that was only introduced in VFP version 8.
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