>>Does anyone know an easy way to dynamically resize a grid column (textbox) based on the size of the source field? (something like AutoSize would be perfect)
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>>I'm adding a variable number of columns to grid and they may be selected by user from a large assortment of fields. Everything works pretty well except that column widths come out looking odd (wide column for 1 char, narrow column for 50 chars, etc.)...is there an easier way than measuring fields and calculating widths?
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>I do it by filling an array from AFIELDS which will return the field width in column 3. You can take that and multiply it by some # returned from txtwidth() or fontmetric(6) to determine the width for the column.
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>Steve Despres
>EZ Data Inc
>sdespres@erols.com

If your clients are only using a few fields, it may be easier just to loop through the columns using len() for each field (times the above-mentioned txtwidth/fontmetric fudge factor, of course).

Barbara