> just fighting with this I could prevent this behavior by
> commenting out this 2 lines of code in IB_Grid.pas:

> // if AlwaysShowEditor and HasFocus then
> // ShowEditor;

> Now typing with ib_datasource.AutoEdit:=true will replace
> content with keyboard character (even with
> ib_grid.AlwaysShowEditor:=False). F2 is working as before.

Thanks Andreas,

That is interesting. It may need to be played with using
various types of dropped in controls to see if it has unwanted
effects in other situations.

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Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing