You might try playing around with the SPARCE property....

>One of these days I'm going write a diatribe called "Ten Things I Hate About Grids".
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>Oh well, just one little thing today. I have a grid where I change values by clicking on cells. The first time I click on a column everything in the column shifts down a few pixels. (As if the text in one cell bumps into the next cell.)
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>If the column is empty only one cell shifts down. (The background color shifts down.) This happens even though the empty column is Not Enabled and ReadOnly.
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>My class structure is:
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>RGrid (based on Grid with no changes)
> Column
> Header
> TextBox
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>I have redone a screen where this didn't happen. One of the differences in the old grid is that the text object is "txtDBCX", a codebook class.
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>I've tried setting alignment properties but haven't fixed it yet. So I'm looking for the right property.
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>One of the things that confuses me about grids is if and when column properties are applied to the contained object. For instance if I set the BackColor property of the column it doesn't carry over to the textbox even when TextBox.BackColor is set to default.
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>Peter Robinson