Thank You All,
I finally know what to do.

All what I was asking for was a simple translation for something my internal english to german interface was not seeing clearly. You mentioned "incremental search" and I was not sure what you mean.<g>

Agnes
>You can still download InGrid class and may be include its code into your specific grid textbox class. It's clearly not a must, but I use it in couple of my applications, because I like this feature.
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>>It was a lot of trouble - but it works great now.
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>>It would be to hard to explain my grids class ... since I didn't want to sell our framework it doesn't make sense anyway.
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>>Agnes
>>>>It is easy.
>>>>Cruel idea to run through all of my grids ...
>>>>No I have a specialized textbox for grids doing a lot of work like this. (e.g. KEYPRESS() looks for CTRL+SPACE to mark a Record <g>) I love subclassing ...
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>>>Cruel idea, indeed.
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>>>Well, I didn't know how you had your grids set up.
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>>>Unfortunately, the textboxes in my grids are directly based on the TextBox base class - because that is the way the Form Builder works in the framework. And I find it too much trouble, for now, to do a major re-design. I might think about it eventually, though.