Hello,

"But what about any column's properties, any non-standard controls (combos, checkboxes) in them... you didn't show an automatic way to restore them. You had code written to do that for a specific editbox. If that editbox had any code in it, you'd have to subclass it for your code to work - which isn't the case with safe selects."

They column's aren't rebuild if you unbind their controlsources, so no code or properties for columns/controls in the columns are lost and thus also need rebuilding.

"I.e. you're talking about a workaround for a grid rebuild, and I'm talking about completely avoiding such a rebuild."

No - my example just shows that ... it avoids grid rebuilding by using the code in the Lock()/Unlock() methods.

"Still, your three methods only restore the controlsources and rowsource, but not the specific controls and other properties. The grid is lost and reborn, a tabula rasa."

... see above ...

"You still haven't convinced me it woudln't lose dynamic* column properties, non-default controls, code in them etc etc. No time to try, though, busy these days."

Not?! .. i thought the example would be enough ... , now it isn't my job to convince someone .. if you have a need for it try it out ... it works (I know since i've used it extensivly in an app)

Regards
Christian