>I have had problems in the past dropping controls on a grid even without the Member class. I started doing this in code and have not seen a promlem since. What I wish I could do is define a control for an individual column in the member class prg <s>.

That's what I do... my column class has this:

Init(tcCaption, tcSource, tcClass, tcClassLib)

The default for the class and classlib is my regular grid textbox (which exists primarily to pass its dblclick and rightclick to the grid - practically unnecessary now with Bindevents(), but this was created in VFP7).

After some checking, and applying defaults if needed,

	.Newobject("grdText",tcClass,tcClassLib)
	.grdText.Width=.Width
	.grdText.Visible=.T.
	If PemStatus(This.grdText,"readonly",5)
		.grdText.ReadOnly=.ReadOnly
	Endif
	.CurrentControl="grdText"
	.ControlSource=tcSource
	If PemStatus(This, "text1",5)
		.RemoveObject("text1")
	Endif

In implementation, the .init of the grid begins with

this.recordsource="(alias here)"
this.columncount=0
...
This.AddObject("colStatus","gcol","Stat",'curevdate.cStatus',"grdTextStatus","dcgrids.prg")
With This.colStatus
	.DynamicBackColor=lcDynBC
Endwith

...and so on for each column. At this point I already have Set Procedure to the prg containing the column class definition.