Hi Chuck:

Thanks, but see my reply to Einar.

Thanks,

Yossi

>>Hi All:
>>
>>I've started dabbling with a grid and I just need some help to get me up to speed.
>>
>>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!
>>
>>I'm probably doing something real stupid, but if I don't ask, I won't know.
>>
>>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.