On a similar vain, I am working on a gridbuilder (prompted in part by your articels in foxtalk):
In the builder I have code in the afterrowcolevent like this

LPARAMETERS nColIndex

this.Parent.txt1.Value=this.Columns[nColIndex].header1.caption
this.Parent.txt.Value=this.Columns[nColIndex].header1.Alignment
this.Parent.txt3.Value=this.Columns[nColIndex].header1.Fontsize
this.Parent.txt4.Value=nColIndex

but nColIndex evaluates to .F.

what could bw wrong???



Peter

>>In a Grid object I can reference each columns by their idx number, what i was asking to myself is : how can I retrieve this number from a column ?
>>I found properties like columnorder but it could change.
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>You can simply add that... in grid's .init,
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for i=1 to this.columncount
>   this.columns[i].addproperty("colindex",i)
>endfor

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>Then for any column object you send as a parameter, this column object's index can be retrieved from its .colindex property. I've tried this and I'm seeing the proper values in the debugger.