>>>Hi Nick,
>>>
>>>Actually that was very helpful. I have the grid working now, except I just realized that my "select ... into cursor temp" won't really work for what I'm trying to do because I am trying to allow the user to check which customer's he/she wants by clicking the checkbox control in the grid. The cursor I'm using is not updatable. Now as I understand it, in order to use a view which would be updatable, I would have to have a database open. The cust table that I'm selecting from is a free table from a clipper program. Any ideas on how I can get what I want short of sending the results of the sql statement to a temporary table that I create? -Rick
>Ooops, correction.
>>Rick,
>>Just to notify something here. You can't contain a free table in dbc but you can set an updatable view (contained in a dbc) for it as you would do other tables.
>>Cetin
>If you need transaction, that's helpfull.
>Cetin

Can't you make the cursor updatable?

use dbf("cursor") again alias MyCursor in 0