Tracy --

The code snippet I sent to this forum is the exact code where I got the error, with nothing intervening.

It was just an accident, of course, that I referenced the alias immediately after creating it. I have had this before, with another cursor, where there was much intervening code (but nothing to do with reports)

By the way, I have never even heard of _vfp_autofield

Cheers


>I noticed that you have a quite a few ideas posted in this thread. I was just curious when you notice that the alias() is empty or the cursor is not available. Is it immediately following the select statement or later on in code? I ask simply because I noticed this happening too if _vfp.autoyield is set to .f. for some reason (possible set for an activex control but not reset to .t.) and the following code is run:
>

>*In this example, periodically vfp closes the cursor before the report finishes
>_vfp.autoyield = .F.
>SELECT * from mytable INTO cursor mycursor
>REPORT FORM myreport NO
>USE IN mycursor
>

>but both below code snippets work correctly:
>

>_vfp.autoyield = .F.
>SELECT * from mytable INTO cursor mycursor
>REPORT FORM myreport NOCONSOLE TO PRINTER
>DOEVENTS
>USE IN mycursor
>
>* or
>
>_vfp.autoyield = .T.
>SELECT * from mytable INTO cursor mycursor
>REPORT FORM myreport NOCONSOLE TO PRINTER
>USE IN mycursor
>

>
>Just wanted to add it to the mix.
>
>
>>Any guesses on how an alias can disappear?
>>
>>I have the following:
>>

>>      SELECT * FROM components INTO CURSOR MyComponents ;
>>         WHERE KitID==lcPartNo
>>      llIskit = 0<RECCOUNT("MyComponents")
>>

>>This is in a loop that is executed a few thousand times. On rare occasions, the second line fails with "alias not found" ... and when this occurs, ALIAS() is empty! That's right, I get a cursor with NO alias.
>>
>>Any guesses on how to get around this? (No, it's not as easy as doing RECCOUNT() -later on, having done various and sundry other things with other SELECT statements, I need to get back to this alias --)
>>
>>Thanks