I will start over with the grid before I do that. I want my design time design surface to be clean.


>>I have a grid in a form class. I cannot delete extra text boxes. I have performed the following:
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>>1). Open the properties dialog.
>>2). Set the propety selection combo box to the text box in the grid I wish to delete.
>>3). clicked on the body of the grid in the column contining the text box.
>>4). Hit the delete key.
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>Just a WAG - you can do it with the normal grid, but your grid is a member of a class where it has the text1 textbox in each column. In this case, it could probably have no way of deleting an object which exists in the class, other than at runtime, which means grid's .init, where you should
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>this.removeobject(this.columnX.text1.name)
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>I'm not quite sure about this, but I've had this impossibility of removing an object which exists in the class definition of its container, at least not at design time. Having found a quick workaround when I stumbled over that, I didn't investigate further.