I have this grid within a container in a form. I'd like to control the exit from the grid through the keyboard, like when the user presses enter, the current record in the cursor underlying the grid is selected and further action can be taken.

You do that through the keypress method of the form. You need to overwrite default behaviour for the grid that is in the container. You'd think that when the focus is on the grid, the thisform.activecontrol.name would return the name of the container. Wrong: it returns the name of the grid.

Bug or feature by design?

Marc