Claude,

>FWIW I found the following solution to the strange behavior.
>I changed the filter in the tables in data enviorment from

field = global variable

>to
>

=(field = global variable)

Shouldn't have been too difficult since it was guessed at in my post <g>

I ran into this one early after downloading the beta and when googling came across two earlier posts - so MS knows quite a while about it. Since backward compatibility is high it is my personal guess it will be fixed. OTOH: if someone has lots of forms with many cursors it should be easy to write a tiny scx-changer. So if the behaviour isn't changed in the release version, I bet you'll find one in the DL area a few days after the release. If I stay with certain one of my current projects, I might do it myself <g>.

regards

thomas