>tried page.refresh and pageframe.refresh. also tried your suggestion about the activepage. still the last line flickers in the grid.
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>i do not have a data environment. have tried both setting and not setting the parent/child table relationship in code before the addobject. do not believe my child table pointer is being moved after i add object. it is at eof(). in the debugger i can see eof() and recno() as i step through the code.
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>still trying
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>brenda
Brenda,
Would you try this for me :

*toplevelform.lockscreen = .t. 
*this.reestablish_parent_child_relationship && this is a page of pageframe
*this.container1.removeobject("grid1","grid1")
*this.container1.addobject ("grid1","grid1") 
select (this.container1.grid1.recordsource)
go recno()
*this.gorecno_parent() && read in ut to try this
*this.container1.grid1.setfocus() &&read in ut to try this
*this.container1.grid1.refresh()
*this.setfocus
*this.container1.refresh()
this.refresh()
*this.container1.grid1.visible = .t.
*toplevelform.lockscreen = .f. 

Cetin