>I have a standard grid on a form. When the form is run, the grid appears with the column showing data as expected. If I then drag a column out of its initial location, how do I get an object reference to that column? In particular, I want to get to its controlsource.
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>I've tried using the grid's activecolumn property but that doesn't work for me. For example, if I drag column5 to be in position 2 (measured relative to the left edge of the grid), ActiveColumn returns 2. What property (if any) could I use to return 5 or something that would indicate that column2 started out as column5?
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>TIA


Mike,

You have to loop through the columns and find which one has ColumnOrder == ActiveColumn

Something like

local n
n = -1  && none
with m.this
   for i = 1 to .ColumnCount
      if( .Columns[m.i].ColumnOrder == .ActiveColumn )
        n = m.i
        exit
      endif
   endfor

endwith
return m.n