>>>>hi all,
>>>>
>>>>i am generating a cursor dynamically and need to populate a grid with the contents of the cursor. the number of columns in the cursor vary every time hence will the columns of the grid.
>>>>
>>>>how can i achieve this result ? and, i want to set the width of every column to some fixed width too - say 50 . how can i achieve this ? will a for...next loop accomplish the task ?
>>>>
>>>>finally, i need to change the font colour of certain values in the grid to RED if they fall short of a certain condition. how can i do this given that the column names of the grid can vary and are not constant every time ?
>>>>
>>>>hope i am understood.
>>>>
>>>>with sincere thanks.
>>
>>I'd just add one more line, just before setting the recordsource, so if the new cursor has more columns than the grid, it would get additional columns. Alternately, it could have exactly fcount() columns.
>>
>>>

>>>with myGrid
>>   .columncount=max(.columncount, fcount())
>>> .RecordSource = 'cursorname'
>>> * Column widths to 50
>>> .SetAll('Width',50)
>>> * Red based on condition - ie: a numeric field under 100
>>> .SetAll('DynamicBackColor', '(iif(cursorname.somefield < 100,0x0000FF,0xFFFFFF))')
>>>endwith
>>>

Cetin
>
>Oh right, I forgot to add:
>
> .columncount=-1
>
>;)

Actually I like that even better.