How to Activate and Use the Record Marker of a Grid

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0

SUMMARY

The record marker is the small box on the leftmost side of each record in the grid. There will be a black arrow in the record marker of the current record if the grid has the focus. The record marker of a grid does not move when scrolling though a table if the grid does not have the focus as the record pointer is being moved.

If the grid does not have focus, then the record marker will not appear beside the current record until the grid receives the focus. The record marker box is available only if the RecordMark property of the grid is set to true. Use the SetFocus property to make the record marker of the grid refresh every time a record is moved.

MORE INFORMATION

Step-by-Step Demonstration

1. Create a new form and place a grid on it. While the mouse pointer is over the grid, click the right mouse button, and then click the Builder to place fields in the grid easily.

2. Place a command button on the form and add the following code to its Click event:

   SKIP

3. Run the form and note that the record marker doesn't appear in the grid until the grid is clicked.

4. Close the form, and then modify it, adding the following line of code after the SKIP command in the Click event of the command button:

   THISFORM.GRID1.SETFOCUS()

5. Run the form and click the command button. Note that the record marker moves as the record pointer of the table is moved with the command button.

Adding the Next and Previous Buttons

If you are using command buttons created by the Form Wizard, place the following code in the Next button of the command button group:

   TXTBTNS.CMDNEXT::CLICK
   THISFORM.GRID1.SETFOCUS()

Setting the focus to the grid each time that the record pointer is moved allows the record marker to be updated. If another object on the form is clicked, the record marker will disappear until the grid receives the focus again.