Dick,
one last thought: as you come from DBF world, could it be, that addresses.remark is NOT null, but "" ?

DIck,
looks like this is something in ADS - just tried it with PG and it works flawless.

Dick,
i think: should do the trick.

In PG, this would be, i think:

What should happen, if there's already content in the target field?

Not sure, if the following is approriate here, but i tend to think clearer, when i have to write down a problem, so bear with me ;-) I'm building an app to manage musical events, strictly inhouse use and for our times, "miniature" table sizes and almost no need for super performance . The ...

Guys, this is an interesting discussion and probably way more relevant for other folks, as my initial "background" question - so, i'd suggest moving the posts to another thread? On the OT side: i just checked and found, that my main machine now has more than 11 years under its belt - i wou...

Chris, Arne, thx for explaining. Indeed it works backwards, too, ie, a background set by the designer dissappears, when the property is set to Null. Another pit i stumbled into was this: SELF:oBG :=Brush{Colorred} which produced neither warning nor error. After some thinking, i now understand: a def...

Strangely, i never used the background property of SLE... - now i want to change it and fail at securing the "old" Background prior to any action. On a Vo-style datawindow, in my sle class' constructor, i added a SELF:oOldBrush:= SELF:Background Debugging, i get SELF:Background is NULL - w...

robert wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2024 8:48 am Karl,
If you own that product, maybe you can create a Unicode DBF and send that to me for inspection?

I do, and here is a simple sample with 5 records, using the values you posted earlier for Peter.