>>Part 1:
>>I'm creating a view using the following syntax:
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>>CREATE SQL VIEW myview AS SELECT *, .f. AS lSelect FROM Inventory
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>>Is this safe? (I'm wondering because it seems to be unnatural use of a view)
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>>Part 2:
>>My purpose for doing this is that this view is bound to a grid and I need the lSelect field to indicate that certain records are selected. I use the Dynamic ForeColor and BackColor of the cells to highlight 'selected' rows so they stand out to the user and appear as selected. The user can Shift-Click to select or deselect records.
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>>I arrived at this solution because I am trying to make a grid have multi-select capability like a listbox. I want the user to be able to select multiple records by shift-clicking, clicking and dragging, or using shift + arrow keys, has anyone seen code to make a grid act like this?
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>Your approach seems too confusing. Imbed a checkbox control into one of the columns in the grid and set it's ControlSource to lSelect.


It will be a better idea if you set a relation to a cursor/view
which is activated throughout your application as your checkbox
get selected give a value true to your cursor or view .Outhere
you'll be using a grid from your main table and relation setted
cursor/view.
I have practically tried out this and its really working perfect
with multiple operations like groupings of the selected records
which could be given a title to retrive at latter use.

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