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>Up till now I have been using the same technique as I used to use in FPD, and it is analogous to
>yours: create a cursor for the details table and fill it up with empty records (200) and tie it to
>a grid. If necessary I lock records in Stock tables.
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>At saving time I copy the cursor to the actual detail table.
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>Except for the BEGIN TRANSACTION, END TRANSACTION and ROLLBACK, you do not even need a DBC.
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>Due to the fact that to my knowledge there is no way to subclass a column, I have not found how I
>can ameliorate this markedly in VFP.

First , regarding the original q. - read about using updatable views
you will have the advantage of using a cursor with the added advantage that you changes can be updated in the parent tables automatically

as for the subclassing a grid column you can do it easly - the setback here is that it has to be done in code and not visually

Arnon