Peter,

>I know of the existence of the User field, but what kind of metadata are you thinking of, and how could it be used?

It was a thought about where you might want to store your "map" information, but it sounds like you've worked out a decent scheme.

>The vfpteam has never been heavilly accused by me of causing the problem, at least that was not my intention, as I think I have made clear earlier. And indeed they have built hook facilities that can probably be of help here, as I have said before. Hope this is one more statement that should make clear my standpoint. I think we don't even have to agree that we disagree. :)

I never meant either that you shouldn't be trying to find a workaround either. You've come up with a pretty good solution.