Tim,
It sounds like you are getting Unicode which means you get a Chr(0) separating your characters. You can convert this back to a normal string using the StrConv function.

cnormalvar = strconv(strconv(cunicodevar,6),2)

HTH.

>Hi all,
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>I am experimenting with the cursor adapter and using Mark's cabuilder program have build a set of classes to use with one of my apps. I am experiencing a problemwhereby I access a SQL Server table containing a nvarchar field and return values to a form with an editbox control.
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>When the cursor is created as a memo type of field, each character is seperated by a square in the display. It is almost like it was getting a line feed or some odd character in there. If I change the data type from nvarchar to varchar, it all works as it should.
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>Is there anyway to render the cursor and editbox properly?
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>Thanks,
>
>Tim Hayes