>BTW, I saw your tip in message #792792, for specifying the custom column's textbox, >and I wonder if you know of any way to point it to my visual textbox custom >baseclass, instead of having to duplicate it in code.

>My guess is there probably isn't, and I suppose it won't be too much of a hassle to >maintain duplicate sets of classes, but of course it'd be nice if we didn't have to.

Jeff, in your class definition for the custom column have you tried:

ADD OBJECT TextBoxName AS MyVisualTextBoxName

I just did a quick check of this and it seems to work OK.

John