At 06:33 PM 17/12/2007, you wrote:

>OK .. I played with the code of the actual component, and they have a drop
>handler for External controls:
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>I modified the code to place the dataset into insert mode, and this works
>for me.
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>Wouldn't this be the preferred reaction?

No. Usually, if one is editing a record, one wants to edit the record. If one wants a new record, one goes to Insert mode.

If you don't want a browsing interface to put the dataset into Edit mode automatically when the record is modified, then set the AutoEdit property of the datasource to False...

Helen