it seems that when I declare a field as read-only in a TIB_Query (using the
FieldsReadOnly list), they become not only "not editable", but they cannot
be changed in any way.

I'd like to prevent the user from changing some fields, but I still want to
be able to change them programmatically, if needed.

Ok, I can play with the OnKeyPress event of the grid and abort when the
user tries to write in one of those fields.

But as a result I lose the nice gray color that take the read-only fields
in a grid.

Ok, I can also play with the OnDraw event of the grid etc etc.

But should one suffer so much to get such a little thing ?

Is there no other way ?

TYIA

Duilio