>>I was working on a custom form for displaying results of an automatic process running from the .activate event of the form. It works fine, there's just one glitch that I don't mind this time, but would certainly need solved for some other cases if it reappears.
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>>The numeric columns in the grid were assigned an InputMask of "999,999,999.99"; the numbers still display without separators. I've used a currency field, and the grid (quite unnecessarily) displayed all four decimals. Tried with n(16,2), it displayed the decimals ok (of course), but sitll didn't show the separators.
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>>The InputMask is assigned in the form's init, like this:
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>>this.nGrid1.column5.text1.InputMask=g_pc
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>>G_pc is defined elsewhere; in the debugger I see it properly assigned to the InputMask property of the textbox in the column. Still, the numbers show without it. Any clues?
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>Is your column's sparse property set to .F.? Otherwise default textbox displays in inactive cells.

I have found that often (more often than not), you must set the focus to the column in order for the input mask to appear. I've even written a method called
SetFocusAllColumns() within my grid class which does that after the grid is built (self building grid).

Steve