Jim,

The view designer should throw up it's hands and give up without a fight if the view is too complex instead of handling it the way it currently does.

Can you by chance post a version of the problematic view as a bug repro fragment so a fix might make it into Europa?

>That's highly possible, David. Nevertheless, when it looks like a view and you have no way of knowing this (handcrafted) in advance, this "handling" by the view designer is most disconcerting!
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>While I was quite happy to be able to see its code, I definitely was not pleased that it seemed to INSIST that I DO SOMETHING TO IT. QUITting VFP is definitely not my preferred way top get "out" of the view.
>And, frankly, I have no idea that QUITting succeeded in leaving it alone and intact, because to find out I have to put myself into the same trap again!