>>>Hi all
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>>>I'm using the BackStyle_Access method made popular by Craig Boyd and Burkhard Stiller. The method is added to a container in a column. By the way, is it only the container that makes the grid check the back_style? As you might know, the access method fires twice per row. I'm trying to avoid that, if possible. I will have to add the access method to a container that is very widely used. That means the access method will fire for every row and every column, even if I only want it for one column. It's also making tracing a bit of a pain since if I set step on, each of the calls to BackStyle_Access fires.
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>>>I thought I remembered that I could BindEvent to the BackStyle property so that when the grid interrogates the value on the container in the one column, I could trigger my routine. The help says we can bind to properties. It fires the delegate if I change a property, but not when I interrogate it. Is there flag I missed? The help does not mention that interrogating a property's value will not trigger the delegate.
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>>Pretty sure BindEvent() fires only on changes to properties, not on accesses. Maybe create a specific subclass of the container for use in this column? Or, to cut down the code that runs, add a property to indicate whether you want to do whatever it is you're doing with method. Set it to true for the one column and first thing in the method:
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>>IF This.lDoThisThing
>>...
>>ENDIF
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>>While it won't keep it from firing, it will mean just one line of code to run when it does fire.
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>>Tamar
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>Hi Tamar
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>Been a while!
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>I did much what you wrote here. Set a property to .T. then call a method. Developers can bindevent to that method. That method only fires once because of the property. I can't use a different subclass. Too bad I can't suppress the BackStyle_Access on the columns that do not need it.
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>Thanks!

Mike --

In my usage, I save the current record number in a grid property and only called my method when that value changes. Thus the method is only called once per row.