> Which control grid?

I'm using the IBO one. I've been using 3rd party TopGrid, but it's overly
complex, buggy and support is not very good and so I thought I'd try to use
some of the other IBO stuff.

I've never used a control grid at all before and thought I'd check it out.

> AFAIK, control grids are intended for displaying one record
> at a time from your set, since all the visual setting stuff
> in these controls happens at row level. Scrolling is
> intended to be via a navigator control rather than a vertical
> scrollbar.

Well I was not using the navigator, just clicking out of one record and into
a field in another.

Why would it require a navigator? What's the difference between scrolling
with the scroll bar (or jumping to other records with the mouse) and using
the navigator?

>
> That said, if you're using the native IBO d/a and control,
> you have a lot of control over the appearance of your data
> (both current and non-current records) in the controls via
> field and ColumnAttributes settings.

Yeah, I set those up and it doesn't seem to work on the inactive fields.

And in one case I want to present totally different information from the
underlying data, not just a reformating of it.

I tried a calculated field as well. With that often times it would be blank
when I scrolled to a new record. I think if it requires using the navigator
then maybye this grid is not the right control for my purpose.

Thanks Helen,

Anthony