Try playing with the SPARCE property of the grid. I can never remember what the setting needs to be to make this display properly.

>I have placed a container object into a column on a grid. One of the fields in the container is a text box, with its controlSource property set to one of the fields in the child table.
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>When the container within the grid gets focus, the proper data appears in the text box control. However, when the container does not have focus, the column appears empty (the container and its contents are not visible).
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>The rest of the columns on the grid appear to functioning properly.
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>using VFP 6...