>hi ! Bruce,
>
>thanks for your reply, can you elaborate a little bit more on how to put
>shapes over the non-editable rows.
>after John Koziol's replied, now i know that a row in the grid cannot
>enable or disable by itself.

No, actually, not much :) It wouldn't be too difficult if you always had grid row #1, for example, editable, you could set a tranparent shape over the rest of the grid. But if the row could vary, the code will get much more difficult...

Personally, I recommend exactly what John suggested earlier - a readonly grid, but where you click on a row (or some selection method) and a new detail form opens with editable fields. That's a good standard interface...