Hi Nadya

I am a bit confused .
Sorry to trouble you but ...
Do i post or not ?
Sorry again

>>Check out Cetin Basoz FAQ titled "Images, containers in grid" for this exact technique. You don't need to add it again.
>>
>
>Thanks, Larry. Disregard this request, Hiten.
>
>>>Hi Hiten,
>>>
>>>Yes, that's exactly what would be very helpful in the FAQ section. Just don't forget to add formatting around the code < pre > tags and give a link for both threads.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>>Hi Nadya
>>>>Please go throu the FAQ u told me to write ..
>>>>
>>>>* FAQ start ->
>>>>
>>>>Hello there.
>>>>
>>>>I am sure many a times VFP users have felt the need to put a Container control in a grid control or maybe show an image in the grid column. All this works fine but what if you wanted to change properties of a control in the container depending on conditions in the underlying table.
>>>>
>>>>Let's take an example.
>>>>We have a table with the following structure ..
>>>>
>>>>tblProducts
>>>>-------------------
>>>>cName C(30)
>>>>nCode N(5)
>>>>mDescription (Memo)
>>>>
>>>>We are displaying this data in a grid via a Container with some controls on them.
>>>>2 TextBoxes and 1 Command Button
>>>>The requirement is to enable/disable the Command Button if there is data in the memo field. Simply put we want to do this ..
>>>>
>>>>if Empty(MemoField)
>>>> CommandButton.enabled = .f.
>>>>else
>>>> CommandButton.enabled = .t.
>>>>endif
>>>>
>>>>This applys to all records in the table and so to the Container in the grid. Every row in the grid will have a different state of the CommandButton depending on the row in the table from where the data is comming.
>>>>
>>>>In a normal situation one could put code in the refresh event of the command button of the control but that does not work.
>>>>
>>>>A workaround is to call a function for each row and update the CommandButton's state accordingly.
>>>>
>>>>We can do so by setting the DynamicBackColor property to a Function in a form.
>>>>In our exampl we can set the Grid.Column1.DynamicBackColor property to =Thisform.DummyFunction()
>>>>
>>>>The code in the DummyFunction would look something like this
>>>>
>>>>* DummyFunction()
>>>>If empty(Table.MemoField)
>>>> Thisform.Grid.Column1.Container.CommandButton.Enabled = .F.
>>>>else
>>>> Thisform.Grid.Column1.Container.CommandButton.Enabled = .T.
>>>>EndIf
>>>>
>>>>That' all there is to it.
>>>>
>>>>--------------- or --------------
>>>>
>>>>According to Larry suggestion .....
>>>>
>>>>* Larry Miller UT Id #030732
>>>>* Bifrost Solutions
>>>>* Odenton, Maryland
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The Refresh method of the Grid, does not propagate like the Refresh method of a form. You could the following functionality to your grid to correct this "flaw".
>>>>local lxx, oControl
>>>>With THIS
>>>> For lxx = 1 to .ColumnCount
>>>> oControl = Eval(".Columns[lxx]."+.Columns[lxx].CurrentControl)
>>>> if pemstatus(oControl,'Refresh',5) then
>>>> oControl.Refresh()
>>>> endif
>>>> Endfor
>>>>Endwith
>>>>Add the code to the Refresh method of the grid. It will go through and call the Refresh methods of all currentcontrols. If more than one control is in a column, the non-active one doesn't get updated. You could change this if you like.
>>>>
>>>>That's all folks ..!
>>>>
>>>>* FAQ End <-