Jim,

The ListView is much closer to a ListBox than a grid because it's read-only. You've to populate it using Add method so its all data is stored in the memory. As result, it has built in sorting by columns, checkboxes, Icons, e.t.c. I guess, you can consider using it when data you want to display isn't comming from the tables or you want to use some other stuff I mentioned. You can download a VFP ListView sample from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;253457 and see for yourself what ListView is capable of.

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>Well, I asked for a brief answer, and I got one! I'm don't understand exactly what you mean when you say that the listview is not data bound -- grids are bound to a table/cursor, but what happens with listviews?
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>But my main question was why would I choose one over another. But that was answered, in some level of detail, at least, in another response.
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