Ok Liam...

To follow on from Cetin's idea (Well, Nick's idea originally :)
chuck a shape over the grid & make it transparent
Then put the following code into the mousemove event

LPARAMETERS nButton, nShift, nXCoord, nYCoord

Dimension laFred[4]

Local lnLeft,lcClass

This.Visible = .f.
=aMouseObj(laFred)
This.Visible = .t.

lcClass = laFred[1].baseclass

If Lower(lcClass) = 'column'
	Wait Window Eval(laFred[1].controlsource) nowait
Endif

This will give you what you want without the grid getting focus...

BUT.. you will also need to implement click transparency to make the grid work normally


HTH
Will



>>Hi All,
>>
>>Has anyone got a solution (or a direction in which to go) for determining the contents of a cell in a grid over which a mouse is moving. I imagine the MouseMove event is where I need to begin but I'm kinda stuck at that point. Any assistance appreciated.
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Liam
>
>Liam,
>If activating the cell under cursor is not a problem you could place a trasparent container (not shape) in front of grid and keep gridname in its tag :
>
>

*Container.MouseMove
>LPARAMETERS nButton, nShift, nXCoord, nYCoord
>store 0 to nWhere, nRelrow, nRelCol
>with eval(this.tag) && Tag keeps something like 'thisform.grdMyGrid'
> .GridHittest(nXCoord, nYCoord, @nWhere, @nRelRow, @nRelCol)
> .ActivateCell(nRelRow, nRelCol)
> wait window trans(eval(.Recordsource+'.'+varread())) nowait
>endwith
>

Cetin