>Hi all
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>What are the best places to save and restore the positions of a grid's columns. I can successfully restore the saved properties in Grid.Init() but have to save the grid column properties in the Form.Release() which beats the OOP purpose. Grid.Destroy() for saving is too late as there are no longer any columns.
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>Please advise.

My legs are an integral part of my body. Think of the grid as an integral part of that form. Get/set its properties in the form's release() method (or my favorite: QueryUnload) and don't bother about it too much. At the time you remove or rename the grid or one its columns and run the form, you'll be warned by an error message and need only change some code in the release method.

I know that OOP gurus want us to do it differently, but I'm not a purist.

Note: QueryUnload is my favorite place for calling the method that saves coordinates, but it must be admitted that it's part of my shutdown system that also releases forms that were invoked by objects on the form. And I cannot use thisform.release(), unless that method calls QueryUnload explicitly.