>When I set the grid.columncount = 2 FoxPro automatically uses it's own textbox class for the two columns. How can I direct it to use my own textbox class instead?
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>Thanks for any help given

VFP8 and up have MemberClass and MemberClassLibrary properties you can use.

* gridstuff.prg

DEFINE CLASS myGrid AS Grid
MemberClass = "myColumn"
MemberClassLibrary = "gridstuff.prg"
ENDDEFINE

DEFINE CLASS myColumn AS Column
HeaderClass = "myHeader"
HeaderClassLibrary = "gridstuff.prg"
Width = 25
ADD OBJECT Text1 AS myText
ENDDEFINE

DEFINE CLASS myHeader AS Header
FontName = "Comic Sans MS"
FontSize = 12
Caption = "myHeader"
ENDDEFINE

DEFINE CLASS myText AS TextBox
FontName = "Chick"
ENDDEFINE

The above example defines custom classes for myGrid for the Column, Header and TextBox used, so that when you change the column count, you'll use these custom classes instead of the VFP defaults.

If you need multiple formats, you can even change the MemberClass and/or MemberClassLibrary properties and add your columns in sections.

Columns 1-3 in one format, change the properties, columns 4-8 in another format, change the properties, etc.