>>>>>I have a grid that displays the contents of a database.
>>>>>I can click on each row and have the record pointer
>>>>>move accordingly. Now, when I click on a record, I want
>>>>>to update the text boxes that represent each column in the grid, and have the focus set on the first text box.
>>>>>
>>>>>I have the following syntax in the click event:
>>>>>
>>>>>scatter memvar
>>>>>show gets
>>>>>
>>>>>my_field.setfocus
>>>>>
>>>>>I keep getting an error that my_field does not exist.
>>>>>
>>>>>What am I doing wrong ??
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA.
>>>>
>>>>If you have Visual Foxpro what's the idea to use SHOW GETS? It looks like very strange coding. Setfocus() is common method and should be referenced like Thisform.Grid.Column.Setfocus().
>>>
>>>thisform.my_field.setfocus should work (vfp needs to know where my_field is located)
>>
>>Dave, my_field it's not a textbox, it's supposed to be grid cell.
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>No. my_field is a textbox. I want to update the textbox, (which is a memory variable from a field in the same database that the grid uses,) from whatever record I am on, that I select from the grid. This way, the user can enter something in the textbox and then the grid gets refreshed to reflect the changes. It's not rocket science.
>
>The click event is on the cell in the grid. So I take it, I have to do thisform.my_field.setfocus in order to get the focus over onto my textbox, or should I just go back to the 2.6 days and use _curobj=objnum(my_field) ??
>
>TIA.

This case Thisform.my_field.setfocus() is OK, and don't go back to 2.x, please. BTW, why don't you want to edit record directly in grid?