>>>had to get the grid out of my browse form class, and put a unique grid >>>in each instance. That's fine, but why did this happen? >> >>Seems to me that when grid was in the class definition, it had to be >>instantiated earlier, i.e. before any of the events on the form; when it >>was on the form, it was treated as an object which could be data bound, >>so it was instantiated after setting up the DE, so when it's init fired >>in the first place, it fired before the DE, and found no tables at all. >> >>Just guessing. What would Sherlock say to this? > >When .AutoOpenTables was .T., it was working. But I don't know what >Sherlock would say. We seem to get down to its intestines, my dear Watson. So, if you have .autoopentables, grid.init fires in time; if you have ..autoopentables=.f., all the object inits fire before the ..beforeOpenTables... One possible test I can think of, is if you had a simple Suspend in your grid's .init (the one which didn't work, and I mean GridClassDefinition.init), and see if any tables managed to get open when the grid object gets instantiated. Or just put a watch breakpoint on program() and see what fires in what order. Though, many situations of this kind seem to be in the analyisis-paralysis line... we may spend a lot of interesting hours trying to guess what's going on, yet it may lead us nowhere.