>>>Hi Greg
>>>
>>>.......The grid may - at its discretion decide that a cell has to be refreshed .........
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>>>This is the bit I dont understand. What dertermines this . I have no code to refresh anywhere that I know of anyway.
>>>Just to re-iterate.. I realise I can code around this but I would like to understand why this is happening
>>>I could have have up to 40 other forms with similar functionality and dont want to have to change all
>>> these if I dont have to.
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>>>The fact that when I make the screen invisible stops the problem , and also the fact that the records that
>>> get the problem are random, seems to me that my code is not the issue, but rather something internal to Foxpro , perhaps that it has to refresh the grid every now and again. But why it is doing this I have no idea .
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>>Just like Gerard said, it's by design. Lots of stuff on a grid are dynamic; even if you don't have any of the dynamic* properties set, there's the record mark, delete mark to be maintained. You may move to a different record in the background, may change values - the grid should reflect
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>I think you meant Gregory.

You could have said that right away :).

Never mind, I assume he reads the whole thread.