>>The other reason was that grid, ahem, behaves while it has the focus, it selects its recordsource, visits records as it refreshes etc, and if happens while you do some other processing, you may get funny glitches. Taking focus off the grid was the way to avoid grid refreshes while processing.
I still have people disbelieving that VFP and even its FP predecessor in the early 1990s had a grid that could cheerfully display entire tables far larger than utilized memory with excellent performance. The only way to achieve that is by breaking the table into pages, they explain to me, and let the user click from page to page. Under the circumstances I guess we can allow the grid a few peccadillos. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
