>I have developed my grids so far in VFP 8.0 with a Grid Class that I used in VFP 6.0 and they have worked fine.
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>Eventually I thought I should try building my Grids directly from the Grid Builder in VFP 8.0. When I do this the Grid does not initiate properly. I get the frame of the Screen to come up but everything in the screen is just white space.
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>I notice when I am developing the screen that there is a vertical black stripe down the left side of the Grid on the inside of the Grid Frame. I have no such black strip when working with my VFP 6.0 Grid Class. I am guessing that this black stripe may be significant but I can find no way of getting rid of it.
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>If anyone else has come across this, I would be pleased to hear from you.
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>Mike Smith

It may be that the grid builder you have, hasn't set the column widths of the columns and they are all set to width of zero. This will cause the look of a black line at the left and the rest as a white screen.

As you can stretch or shrink any column by clicking on the right side of the column in the grid header, click the right part of the header black line and stretch it to the right... Then repeat with other columns if this is the case.