>>In FPW/FPD, I could create calculated fields in a BROWSE by doing;
>>maddress = address1+city+st :H = "Address"
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>>In the VFP 5 sample solutions app there is a grid with a calculated field, but the data is bound to the grid in the form (see vfp\samples\solution\controls\grid\calc.scx)
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>>I want to do something similar, such as turn a character field from values of "1","2" to "J","S" at runtime, not binding the recordsource before runtime.
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>>It doesn't seem to work as you would expect.
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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>Michael, you can set column.ControlSource to (None) at design time,
>and at the runtime reset it for example to column.ControlSource = IIF(myfield = "1","J","S") if it is what you mean.
>
>HTH, Nick

Michael, you can even use Column.ControlSource="thisform.setcolumn()", where Setcolumn is form's custom method (like UDF).