At 03:27 PM 13/11/2003 +1000, you wrote:

>Hi Helen,
>
>HB> Correct. Any fields from the dataset that you don't want displayed in the
>HB> ib_grid, just set their Visible field attribute to False. You can
>also set
>HB> other Grid things for the column, such as the caption, width,
>alignment and
>HB> so on.
>
>ah, but that will cause ALL of the data to be fetched from the
>database uppon moving from one record to another.
>
>The concept I'm after is to minimize this fetching of records, so that
>whilst browsing a grid, only 3-4 fields are displayed, then when the
>user presses, say "Edit", they get a second screen (or whatever) that
>contains all of the fields (not just the 3-4).

It seems you missed the point I made in the first response. Your m/d
approach is the right one when you have a big dataset. I did point out
that the "whole row" approach is handy for small datasets...

/ends

Helen