>Nadya,
>
>I don't know MM but normally what you do with any commercial or 3rd party framework is you subclass it into an intermediate class level. Then you modify your intermediate cGridTextbox, not the framework's bases class.
>This way, if and when the framework gets updated, it does not overwrite your changes. Furthermore, your intermediate class inherits all their changes, but if you don't like one of them or it messes your apps, you can allways override it at the intermediate level, therefore not affecting your app-specific instances.
>
>HTH

Alex,

You're absolutely right, of course. I don't know why we didn't subclass it. May be because builder uses this particular class, though I'm not 100% sure it's not customizable. But at this point of development it's too late to switch to subclass of cGridTextBox class.