Glad you found the problem.

I didn't know that you were using CodeBook, but I was pretty sure it was coming down the class hiarchy in some way. A couple tips about searching I have found. Use GoFish or something like it first. If you don't find what you are looking for then try the Windows' Exploring search utility. That will usually tell you at least what file a string exists in. If that doesn't point me to exactly what I'm trying to find sometimes I will simply do a MODI COMM MyApplication.exe on a copy of the application's compiled exe from Foxpro and do a Find. That last one is extremely useful also for locating lost code if the exe hasn't been strongly encrypted.

Renoir

>Thanks for all the trouble Renoir. I have found the problem. In the framework CodeBook there is an txt.init() where the inputmask is filled by X's this is just so that the field length is maintained. Now I had modified the grid class to set the col.inputmask to the txt.inputmask (which now contains x's) and the column didn't like it.
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>I would have sent the vcx's but like I said it it dependent on codebook, sending one set would have asked for another <g>.
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>>I do not need to run the applicaton, but I would like to be able to open the classes. I'm getting errors when trying to open frmtcdtrans. It expects other classes to be available that are in the C04 and common\libs directories. Would you send me all the files I need to open this form?
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>>Renoir
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>>>Well surprise, surprise the new column txtcremarks is getting XXXXXXXXXX as inputmask.
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>>>>Ok, but what is the name of one of the combos that is getting the X assigned to it? That is the specific object I will need to search for.
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>>>>Renoir
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>>>>>>What is the name of the object and which forms or classes is in where it doesn't work?
>>>>>
>>>>>tcdtrans.vcx
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>>>>>frmtcdtrans
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>>>>>grditems
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>>>>>this grid has 3 cbo in it, one of them is being assigned X for inputmask.