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>>You've heard of MADD "mothers against drinking and driving"
>>we could probably start an organization called VFPPAG "VFP programmers against grids" .... i know a few guys who hate grids as well LOL
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>> typically i either do it with a listbox or just say "that cant be done reliably"....
>>but i'll check the .ocx you recommend....
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>>thanks for the info.
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>Then I will start the campaign "VFP programmers for grids!". :) Never had a problem with making the grid to do what I want it to do.
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>Nick aka "Dr. Grid"
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In the one to many form, there are some sitiations in which using the grid makes a lot of sense. Even in the standard scenario in which the grid serves as a locate control, you can use too for data entry when you need fast multiple entries. As an example, lets say the grid holds 20 ordered items and you want to tell the system that 10 of those 20 have been delivered. If you let the field "deliverDate" to be edited in the grid you avoid a lot of mouse clicks and key strokes (if not, the user has to go item by item bringing up the "edit form" and inserting the date).

I have been using grids for some kinds of data input for many years very succesfuly. I don't share that radicalism against grids for data entry.