PMFJI and FWIW (love alphabet soup *s*) Colin. I use the when of the grid to do a reccount on the child records. If it is zero, I automatically INSERT a new record (row). You could also ask the user if that's what is wanted before doing it. Works very snooth for me. HTH


>PMFJI Erik, I just started experimenting with .AllowAddNew=.T. in my grids. The problem is this functionality only works when there is at least 1 record displayed in the grid so my grids run into problems when entering for the first time or after deleteing all child records. Is there a smooth way to get around this?
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>>>I get a problem when I append a new record in the grid, the new record pointer will be point to the first grid row, how can i set the pointer in the last grid row.
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>>The record pointer is refreshed when the grid receives focus. From your add button, you can
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>>THISFORM.mygrid1.Refresh()
>>THISFORM.mygrid1.SetFocus()
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>>and it will update the pointer.
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>>>And I also want to know how the new record pointer will be jump to the last grid row for me to continue add a new record when it is in the ADDING RECORD MODE (it mean that i only need to press ADD button once I can add more than one records).
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>>You can check out the grid.AllowAddNew property.