> Actually...
> I have an AfterOpen event which puts my users back where they were when the
> app was last exited... I assumed that I could move to the record in question
> without much fuss, but this method of getting there, to fill the grid
> buffers, seems to fetch all the records if the one I want is near the bottom
> of the dataset... thus the dialog in question and the delay I wasn't
> expecting.
>
> IB_QBlocks.KeyFields.Values['BLOCKIND'] := irLastBlock;
> IB_QBlocks.LookupKeyForFields;
>
> Is there a faster way to seek / locate this record and fill the buffers?

Don't know exactly how the internals for your above statements
work. Have you tried TIB_Query.Locate with HDR activated?

Thomas.