I think at this point (for me at least) it is important to meet the customer requirements (Bill is right). More importantly for me is to see that .NET world is just as flexible as the VFP world. (On the topic of grids, I finally - after reading and trying million things today - figured out how WinForms grid works and how to create a grid on-the-fly dynamically. It is still work in progress but I am happy :)))))).

>Wow, I can't believe that there's no one else (other than me and Naomi) who thinks this is a bad design and counter-intuitive!!! Well, no one else who's replied anyway.
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>Think about it this way guys ... paper forms with checkboxes. Users know how to use checkboxes on a paper form! Why would an electronic version of that be any different?
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>~~Bonnie
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>>>It will be my pleasure <g>. I already mentioned before that I have a check box on my VFP form that when checked says "Active". And when unchecked it says "Inactive". The caption to this check box says "Project Status". I know that you will say "this is so obvious, why do you need this redundancy?". I do, believe me, with my customers, I do. You won't believe how many times - even with this redundant caption - they call me and say something like "How come this project is not showing on the report?" Even though it clearly says on the form "Inactive". So I need to make the forms in WinForms work exactly (or as close as possible) to the VFP form.
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>>It does appear that your users are confused, and that's my point.
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>>If I see a CheckBox with Text that says "Active" and a check-mark in it, I'll assume that clicking and un-checking will make it inactive. So if I clicked to un-check it, I would expect to see no check-mark but the Text still says "Active". No check-mark in the CheckBox means it's not active.
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>>But, since you change the Text to say "Inactive" when there's no check-mark in the box, then I, as a user, would expect that checking that box would make it Inactive, because that's what the text says. After all, the purpose of a checkbox is basically to say "this text is true or false" ... IOW, "Active" is true when checked and false when unchecked.
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>>~~Bonnie