>Hi All:
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>I've started dabbling with a grid and I just need some help to get me up to speed.
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>I want a simple form that'll create a cursor of filenames, populate a grid with the list and have the user click a check box in the grid next to any filename he wants to do an action on (the action itself is not important here, probably).
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>So I created a form, dropped a grid with the followng attributes:
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>recordtype=alias (I also tried 'table')
>recordsource = CURS_MATRIX
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>I then set up two methods in the form
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>INIT
>DODEFAULT()
>thisform.CreateMatrixCursor()
>thisform.grdMatrix.Refresh()
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>CREATEMATRIXCURSOR
>ADIR(laMatrix,'c:\agri\poult\excel spreadsheets\agri????.xls')
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>CREATE CURSOR CURS_MATRIX (cu_fname c (15))
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>APPEND FROM ARRAY laMatrix
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>ALTER table CURS_MATRIX ADD cu_lupd L
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>Nothing appears in the grid!
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>I'm probably doing something real stupid, but if I don't ask, I won't know.
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>Thanks a lot.
>
>Yossi

You might want to try and move the code you have in the init to the load. Since the forms init will fire after the grids init.