Geoff,

> One difficulty is that when you assign properties/events of a
> TIB_Column using FieldByName or Fields[], then you are assigning to
> the column instance only on that particular TIB_Row (the TIB_Row used
> to hold and interact with the currently selected row of the dataset).
>
> Grids and some other operations (perhaps even your own) that are using
> buffered datasets (TIB_Query) may be using BufferFields or
> BufferFieldByName which references a different TIB_Row, and therefore
> different column instances, instances that have not been assigned the
> special OnGetText functions.

I read it twice since I couldn't believe it; are you saying that an
event handler assignment to a column's event does not survive a record
change?
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