I owe some of you kind souls a debt already, especially Chris for comments and have now got a working model, albiet a stripped down version of the Memo sample which I can view just one memo record on a single form with a field.
Only thing is the damm thing edits the memo, even though I changed the code from read/write to read only. Also I read somewhere that DmQueryRecord would not enable the app to write to the database but it is in fact doing just that and for the life of me I just cant see a way to prevent this happening. I used DmQueryRecord and then got the record into the field with FldSetTextField. All I want to do is get the record from Memo Pad and then use it in my app. I guess I should be able to quickly close the database as soon as I have the record. Barry -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
