>The abnormalities you describe are very similar to those I observerd with the various techniques I tried. It's probably safe to say that the answer to my initial question is a simple "No."

Doesn't make me too sad - I really wasn't using this control in a grid (and generally I think that the best grid is a readonly grid with just textboxes), but I thought it would be cool to extend this browse.prg (it had only the first three lines before this :).

I hoped you would use it in a slightly different manner so we'd get more light on the issue. Since it seems several grid issues are addressed in VFP8, I really don't feel like digging into this one now.