>>Can you please elaborate more on your approach?
>
>(1) I never use grids for data entry, so I have not tried to implement it in a grid.
>(2) I have not tried instantiating it on the fly.
>
>Basic VFE tiers include cursor, data environment, business object, presentation object and form, and
>I've just been dropping instances of the class on the presentation object (which is a container) as needed --
>i.e., one for each numeric textbox on the PO. For each instance, I simply set a cAssociatedControl prop to the name of
>the numeric textbox that gets updated.
>
>Because I've coded the class to work with the (modified) way I do things in the VFE context (and it is a sub-sub-class of
>VFE's default textbox control), the code would not be straightforwardly transferable even to someone else using VFE.
>But I can certainly pull together a description of the relevant PEMs and some code snippets if you really think they
>would be useful to you.
>
>-m.

What I think we may want for the grid (and it's a bit unfortunate) is to use a writable cursor/CA/View with character fields instead of numeric and do a replacement with the values behind the scenes.

I was originally thinking of trying to create a textbox class that will instantiate a different class when user tries to type something, but I believe it would be too complex (for us) to design such a class and adjusting grids, though would require some re-design, may be easier.