At 01:49 AM 24/02/2010, you wrote:

>Hi Helen,
>
>it seems that nothing changed during my three year Delphi absence,
>you are still the first one to reply to my postings ;-)

Pure happenstance this time - I'm not much involved these days, being not in possession of any Embarcadero software.

>> It's not in edit mode?
>
>If you mean the keysource dataset by this: yes, it is in edit mode.
>But my description of the problem was a bit to vague: not only the
>LookupCombo is not shown in the grid, even the field showing the
>lookup value is not displayed at all (in the grid).
>
>This leads me to the following question:
>if I drop a lookup combo that works properly outside a grid onto
>a grid, how does the grid know that it is now supposed to display
>the lookup field. Is this done automagically (this was my assumption
>after reading the documentation) or do I have to toggle any additional settings?

How do you have the KeyLinks and KeyDescLinks set up?

Helen