>>>>I have a form with a grid in a page frame. The data environment has a filter that's being applied from a choice in a combo box. That all works fine, but occasionally when the user clicks back to the tab with the grid one or several records will just display with asterisks across all fields. Has anyone run into this or does anyone have any ideas about what could be causing this?
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>>>Hi Karen,
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>>>Do you have a THIS.REFRESH in the ACTIVATE event of each page of the page frame? This has been known to clear up display problems when switching pages in a page frame.
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>>>Bill
>>Hi Bill --
>>Yes, it is refreshing. The problem is in the grid itself. Some of the records display properly and some are just asterisks -- it's almost as if the data has gotten corrupted, except the table (when I look at it) is always fine.
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>This may sound too simple but, could it be that the data is too wide for the column as it is defined? This happens in several different situations, such as report fields.
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>Dana
VFP fills 'missing teeth' with asterisks -- either numeric overflow or no data for the relationship specified -- need to examine the data type, data value, and relationship to determine which reason VFP feels compelled to fill in the 'missing / invalid data' with asterisks. Ain't life wonderful?
Robin