I can expand arrays in the watch window in VFP 9, but I haven't tried it by using _VFP.activeform. Do you see this problem with any array to try in the Watch Window? If so, try deleting your foxuser table.

>using vfp 9 the debugger watch window does not show arrays properly anymore!
>look at this snagit text screen shot.
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>  _vfp.activeform.aCAT           "Pay Periods"                                                    C
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>  _vfp.activeform.aCAT[2,1]      "Employee Types"                                                 C
>  _vfp.activeform.aCAT[3,1]      "Federal Taxes"                                                  C
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>I used to be able to expand an array but not anymore. In the above screenshot the line _vfp.activeform.aCAT should be preceded with a plus sign but is not
>to show that acat is really an array I added the last 2 lines showing the content of .acat[2,1] and acat[3,1]
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>what am I doing wrong or is this a bug??
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>Also in the trace window I was able to hover the cursor over a variable and it gave me the string content ENCLOSED in quote if it was a character field. Now in VFP9 it does not show the quotes anymore....
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>Has anybody else seen this behaviour?
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>Peter
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>PS note to Michel! could we have the ability to insert a graphic from the clipboard to a message (a screen shot for example) :-)