>With the help of many on this site I am re-writing my data entry form framework which will now use a cursor in the navigation grid rather than a copy of the main data table.
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>Regarding the navigation grid, I want to automate the grid creation process using data stored in a form property. The developer simply fills in the form property with CSV of the fields from the main table he desires to be in the navigation grid and a form method then parses and creates the cursor and indices then populates the grid properties accordingly.
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>2 questions come to mind my little mind. How can I harvest from the table their field “captions” to use in the nav. grid headers and is there a way to calculate the column widths programmatically based on the field with and font used? I didn't see that capability in the aFields() function.
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>Thank you very much in advance,
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>Gary De Lecce

I do have an old code posted here that does exactly that. Now just need to find the thread. And here it is
Re: How To Programmatically set column widths in dynamic gri Thread #689312 Message #689340