>In fact I had done it! > >In case u miss it, I just quote from there: > >DEFINE CLASS myGrid AS GRID > That's it! In fact, combined with Erik's approach, this will lead to what I want - an automatic grid builder, which can be passed a list of field names, and it does the rest - pulls the header captions from the ..dbc (or interactively prompts for them), generates code (or .scx) to keep the grid, which will show the data in proper controls etc. Once I finish it, it'll work just as well as it did in FPD26 (ok, wasn't a class then :), and hopefully have all the features I want it to. Specially, 10Q for the quote - my phone line is awful, I hardly manage to keep up with the UT mail, and searching M$'s site for a KB article would just exhaust my phone budget.