>>>It works if you set Sparse=.F.
>>I tried it, it worked, but then the current record highlighting got crazy (as Fabio would say <g>), so I decided to leave it with Sparse = .t. We have NULLDISPLAY set to empty string, so it looks quite nice anyway.
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>For a dynamic Nulldisplay, you can use this:
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>Sparse = .T.
>Bound  = .F.
>Column.controlsource = "NVL(fieldNullable,eNullDisplay)"
>TextBox.controlsource = "fieldNullable"
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>* TextBox.GotFocues
>this.NullDisplay = EVAL(eNullDisplay)
>

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>But a VFPT's bug design, set the textbox to ReadOnly ( VFP doesn't uses Bound = .T. as condition )
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>As workaround you can:
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>* textBox.Keypress
>this.ReadOnly = .T.
>

Sounds too complicated. I think I leave everything as it is right now. In our application we use nulldisplay as empty string. I wanted to use N/A instead of it, but it would not look nice in the grid when the whole column would be N/A, so I better would live with our defaults.