>Hi all
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>Is this possible or is there a programatical alternative.
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>grid.init()
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this.setall("inputmask", "this.child.inputmask", "column")

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>or
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this.setall("sparse", "iif(this.child.class = 'txtcurrfld', .F., .T.)", "column")

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>Please advise.

Hierarchically column sets inputmask unless bound=.f.
However I think you can use the same logic you use in yur txtbox class to get inputmask and apply to column instead (ie: dbgetprop()).

SetAll somewhat awkward to do this. It gets the value once and applies to given classes. What you need is soemthing like this (per column) :

for each oColumn in this.Columns
 if pemstatus(oColumn,'txtcurrfld',5)
   with oColumn
     .InputMask = .txtCurrFld.Inputmask
     .CurrentControl = 'txtCurrFld'
     .Sparse = .F.
   endwith
endfor

PS: I know I know no error check.
Cetin