As nobody answered to me, I have to do it myself.

It appears, that suddenly one property - position of the grid columns - is stored into TIB_Grid properties, namely GridLinks. And this overwrites the TIB_Query's FieldsIndex.
At the same time the grid column width is still determined in the TIB_Query?!? The logic of this escapes me.

But there is still on problem.
If I set the columns ordering, and user reorders them, I can get the the order at the closing my form. That's fine.
BUT, if I dont set the orders specifically (I use the defualt values), then I can't get the new orders at the end. I can reorder them as much I like, but when closing the form , the GridLinks property is empty.

This means, that I must specifically set the grid columns for each of my grid (and some of them can have different datasets at the time).
Why do I HAVE TO populate this property manualy?

Riho-Rene Ellermaa

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Riho-Rene Ellermaa [mailto:r.ellermaa@...]
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 5:15 PM
> To: IBObject (E-mail)
> Subject: [IBO] Column ordering
>
>
> IBO 4.2Hc
>
> I thought to save the ordering of Grid columns into INI file
> so that users could set their prefered order.
> I tried to use FieldsIndex->SafeCommaText. For saving it's
> 'OK, but in loading it behaves very strangely.
> Query->FieldsIndex->SafeCommaText=NULL;
> Query->FieldsIndex->SafeCommaText="NAME,UID,BDATE";
> String Str=Query->FieldsIndex->SafeCommaText;
> And suddenly in next line
> Str="UID,BDATE,NAME";
>
> How come????
>
>
> Riho-Rene Ellermaa
>