DOCERR: Incomplete Instructions for Populating a Grid Control

ID: Q136977

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0

SUMMARY

Page 354 of the Developer's Guide, and the Help file topic "Populating Form Controls" both specify incomplete instructions for populating the grid from the results of a query. The text of both state "Set the RowSource or RecordSource property to the cursor or table you specified in the SELECT - SQL statement."

MORE INFORMATION

Both resources should also state, "The RecordSource property needs to be specified in the grid's property sheet in the Form Designer, and respecified by means of the NEXT command after the SELECT - SQL command in the grid's Init event."

The syntax to use for the grid's Init event is:

   This.RecordSource = <cursor name>

Reissuing the RecordSource property is required because the properties of the grid are lost when the query is executed. They need to be reestablished.

REFERENCES

For more information about the loss of properties of a grid populated by a query, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q131836
   TITLE     : PRB: Grid Not Refreshing Displaying a Cursor From Query

Additional reference words: 3.00 VFoxWin KBCategory: kbprg kbdocerr KBSubcategory: FxprgGrid