>Mike,
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>You are right, but it didn't seem like much work at the time. I suppose I figured SPT or CursorAdapters were only for "remote" tables and seemed like a step backwards (maintenance-wise) from a view.
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>VFP treats a View just like a Table, so in earlier versions I didn't have to do anything different with my forms. Also, views allow me to specify a lot of information about formatting, integrity, and the like - one time without having to code it by hand.
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>I can see now that I am doing a lot of coding by hand anyway. Also, SPT or CursorAdapters would allow me to more easily move my tables into another data tier.
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>I appreciate you taking the time to help me out on this and I will start looking into moving my data access into one of these other methods. By the way, do you suggest SPT instead of CursorAdapters?
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I'm not the best person to ask. I use Visual MaxFrame. It has SPT data objects that predate the CursorAdapter technology by a few years. As such I've never had a reason to look at CursorAdapters.