Mike

That was my first plan but the application has been in production for years. Introducing a new table will affect many screens and reports. My boss did not like the 2 grids approach, you know he signs the check.

Mo

>Maybe the problem will become simpler if you rethink the approach. Why do you have a parent-child relation in the same grid? You might instead use two grids. Or a grid for the child table and separate controls such as textboxes for the parent record?
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>>Stefan
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>>Your example answered my question but my problem is bit more complex. I have many parent-child relation in the same grid.
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>>So far, I don't think setall() going to work for this problem. Let me work on it some more and let you know what happened. I will put more details if still need help.
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>>Thanks
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>>>>Can I control a row in a grid based on selection on other row in the grid.
>>>>
>>>>for example, I have data in a grid row (table column) that points to another row in the grid and I wish to do something with this row (disable, change color) based on data in other row (flag =true)
>>>>
>>>>is that possible? is there a setall() magic in the grid to accomplish this?
>>>
>>>To expand on Naomi's reply - one way might be to store yourGrid.Recordsource's current key value in some property in yourGrid.AfterRowColChange(), and then evaluate that property in an expression stored in a yourGrid.Dynamic* property.
>>>
>>>The example.prg below is an older one, does it do what you want?
>>>
>>>
>>>hth
>>>-Stefan
>>>
>>>

>>>LOCAL oForm as Form
>>>oForm = CREATEOBJECT('TestForm')
>>>oForm.Show(1)
>>>RETURN
>>>
>>>DEFINE CLASS TestForm as Form
>>>	CurrentValue = 0
>>>	AutoCenter = .T.
>>>	PROCEDURE Load
>>>		CREATE CURSOR temp (test Int)
>>>		LOCAL i
>>>		FOR i = 1 TO 5
>>>			INSERT INTO temp VALUES (1)
>>>			INSERT INTO temp VALUES (2)
>>>			INSERT INTO temp VALUES (3)
>>>		ENDFOR
>>>		GO TOP
>>>	ENDPROC
>>>
>>>	ADD OBJECT grdTest as Grid WITH ;
>>>		Left = 10, Top = 10, ;
>>>		Width = 350, Height = 220, ;
>>>		Anchor = 15, ;
>>>		RowSource = 'temp', ;
>>>		ColumnCount = 1
>>>	PROCEDURE grdTest.Init
>>>		This.SetAll('DynamicForeColor','This.DynamicX()','Column')
>>>	ENDPROC
>>>	PROCEDURE grdTest.DynamicX
>>>		LOCAL lnColor
>>>		lnColor = RGB(0,0,0)
>>>		IF temp.test = Thisform.CurrentValue
>>>			lnColor = RGB(255,0,0)
>>>		ENDIF
>>>		RETURN m.lnColor
>>>	ENDPROC
>>>	PROCEDURE grdTest.AfterRowColChange(nColIndex)
>>>		Thisform.CurrentValue = temp.test
>>>		This.Refresh()
>>>	ENDPROC
>>>ENDDEFINE
>>>