>>>Glad to see your computer is not snow-bound yet -- actually you don't get much snow in Vancouver, do you? I always enjoy my visits there. A beautiful city.
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>>In Vancouver we are lucky if it snows twice. :-)
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>>>As to why we want to abandon the VFP grid. Actually we don't. But it is not as robust as one might want, it has display preculiarities, it loses its links with its data sources periodically and for no evident reason, and generally was a poor choice by MS to start with and has not been upgraded significantly in eight years. Other than that, it's a fine grid.
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>>Huh. Most of us use the grid to great success. It has a few quirks. Why not start a new thread listing a specific problem you are having with the grid and we can all try to help you out. Start with one problem and then we will move onto the rest.
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>Allow me to quote "controls and KAOS" from Chapter One of The Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 6.0:
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>"They're also incredibly difficult to get just right for data entry—many of the developers we know would rather climb Mount Everest than configure a grid for entering data. As a display device, though, or a tool to select a particular record, they're hard to beat. A fellow developer was heard to say, after evaluating a number of other ActiveX data grids, that the only thing worse than the VFP Grid was any other choice."

Like democracy is the world's worst choice of government, except for all others.

I read that a few months ago, which I hardly believed at the time, but I'm starting to.

regards,