> Setting a value in a direct fashion will cause the modified flag to

be set.

> Using the Assign() method will suppress that flag if the values are

the same.

Thanks for that Jason.

Is there no way of automatically detecting if the row has REALLY
changed? Some of my visual interfaces are non db-aware, so I only
want to redraw them if the data has changed.

From what I can see, the only way of detecting if a row has changed
is by manually comparing every field before setting the new value.

I assume that the db-aware controls can detect changes, but the
majority of my forms have some non-db aware controls whose values
need to be assigned to the field manually.