Thanks. Neat idea but it didn't work.

Never could get the dynamiccurrentcontrol (there is no

dynamiccurrentcontrolsource) to work at all. I tried both calling a

procedure and an iif() function but neither worked. I even tried a very

simple test of a default grid baseclass with just a test free table and

putting another textbox in a column (giving 2 textboxes total) and trying a

dynamiccurrentcontrol on that but it didn't work either. It either gave me

the textbox1 or nothing at all. I'm sure it's something I'm just not setting

correctly. I even tried some grids' setall() methods (I've done that

extensively with dynamicbackgroundcolor,etc. and it's worked well for me

with multiple columns) to see if I could go around that way but, still, no

luck.

As a side note, having another container class and using the

dynamiccurrentcontrol (which didn't show any difference as stated above)

slowed that form down around 15-20% on browsing/navigating the records and

that wouldn't have worked anyway even if it had worked as I wanted. Another

problem I had was removing the second object in the column. It simply would

not be removed/destroyed. I could remove the first (original) container

class by simply doing something like:

thisform.grid.column.removeobject("mycontainer1")

but never could get the second container object removed by any means.

Strange. I'll have to play with that some other time though.

Thanks again for the idea.

- A Hilton

> Not so quick; check out my "DynamicCurrentControlSource" article

> in FoxPro

> Advisor / February 2000 issue. The gist is to have two (2)

> separate controls

> in your column, the only difference being the red label in one of

> them. Set

> the column's Bound property to .F. and ResetToDefault() the column's

> ControlSource (so that's it not set). Then set the ControlSource

> for each

> control (i.e., the two [2] instances of your container] within

> the column.

> Finally, at the end of your grid's Init() event/method, set Column1's

> DynamicCurrentControl property by calling a custom

> "DynamicCurrentControl()"

> method in which you place your If logic (alternatively, you can employ Do

> Case logic if/when you have more than 2 cases) to determine which

> control to

> display when.

>

> (BTW, you can also set the DynamicCurrentControl property with an IIf

> statement but I find it a *ton* easier to debug If and Do Case

> constructs in

> a method than IIf methods *especially* when you have more than 2 cases.)

>

> HTH,

>

> Art Bergquist

> abergquis@cs.com

>