Ken,

If you allow the grid to build itself at runtime, it will use VFP baseclasses, there is no other way. What you can do is in the Grid.Init() use a loop and remove each text1 and put your own in it's place. That code I posted works just as well at runtime as it does at design time.

>Yeah, but this is a two-edge sword. Once you put the grid on a form you can *add* colums to it, but you cannot remove the columns that were created by the "class"...
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>Now then, *changing* the textbox to mytextbox is easy enough to do manually...provided you don't have a grid with 1,234,693 columns ;)