>>with a different control, for every grid I make. Wasn't OOP intended to >>group such repetitive jobs into classes, where they get solved once for >>good? >> >>I can only repeat what I've said in the other reply in this thread. > >Very true. I've created this one grid for use everywhere so I've only had >to do this once. I've never done it again so I'd say the the OOP >principles have been applied. I've even subclassed this grid to customize >other grids but I didn't have to go through the process of entirely >remaking it. > >Steve I'm a lazy programmer :) - I thought that creating 25 columns was hard hand labor... but then, once you do it, you do have it solved. Today's bunch of messages (in other threads too) seems to collect nice info on this subject, with a little more programmable approach than this. Nevertheless, this approach may be the only one usable in some situations. BTW, have you created the 25 columns by hand, or could you cut&paste?