> Yes, poor encapsulation. I'd rather keep it safe from
> all sorts of abuses...

Ok.

> There is a method on the DataSource or the dataset itself
> to do this. I believe it is called UpdateRecord or
> something like that...

Yes but these do all fields. It could be good to have a control based
function that could be called to force just the specific control to
update itself back to the field (called DataLink.UpdateData).

Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing