>>Sorry, I'm not understanding the problem...why are you showing the drig at all? To show other records?
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>Yes ... the user gets to see a list of attributes/settings being used in his system, picks one to change or delete (or decides to add a new one), then goes ahead and does it.

I suggest using a page frame. In one page, put the text boxes and put the grid in the other one

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>>>>Is there any reason that you didn't want to add/edit/delete directly in the grid?
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>>>I'm trying for some consistancy in my interface. Although this particular screen has only 2 fields, some will have 20 and would be unworkable as a grid.
>>>In this case, is there some reason I should do it in the grid?
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>>>>>I’m new to the graphical interface, and have built a simple VFP 5.0a screen with a 2 column, readonly grid populated from a table, and a pair of text fields with their datasource coming from the same two fields of the table being displayed in the grid.
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>>>>>I navigate with my VCR toolbar, or my special navigation keys set up in the base form’s keypress method. I’m using optimistic row buffering. The purpose of the form is add/edit/delete. My scheme is select with the navigation keys, (the grid hilighting should move) and do my editing in the two text boxes.
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>>>>>I’m having some problems. If after making my change, I move to the next record with my navigation keys without first presing enter, I loose my change. In addition, I can’t seem to get the row highliting in the grid to move as I sit on a text box and press my next() or previous() navigation key. Without a mouse (some of my data entry users) the idea of scrolling through a grid and then going to the textboxes seems a little awkward. I think I’m missing some concepts here.
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>>>>>1) Can I leave either textbox with my navigation keys without loosing my update?
>>>>>2) How should I link the grid highliting to my navigation while in a textbox?
>>>>>3) Should I bypass the text boxes, set my grid’s readonly to .f., and do my add/edit/delete directly in the grid?