>Fox Pros -
>
>This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen. I've been working on a form,
>nothing too fancy - parent records, child records displayed in a grid.
>I've taken a lot of time to make it look nice.
>
>I was changing some of the properties of the grid, the control sources,
>the header captions, reduced the column count by 1. Now suddenly, when I
>run the form, it is ALL BLANK! As in SOLID WHITE! NOTHING IS VISIBLE!
>The controls appear to be there, since the focus would be on the "Previous
>Record" button, and pressing return shows my custom message that we're
>already on the first record. I can move (blindly) to the other control
>buttons, and they too function as expected, except that I can't see
>anything. It acts like everything is taking place on some invisible
>plane.
>
>In design mode the form looks fine - all controls just like they always
>were. I can copy all of the controls, paste them onto a new blank form,
>run that new form, and everything reappears.
>
>Any hints or suggestions?
>Don Smith

Hi Don,

It sounds like your recordsource is not defined.

Thisform.thisgrid.RecordSource = "YourTableName" OR
set the recordsource for the grid in the properties sheet.
Also, your table should also be in the DE to assure it is available.

HTH.

John