Forbidden data in a Data Grid?

[Pete]

Carriage returns in the middle of a column will also mess up the datagrid
if you are using the dgText rather than the dgData property.  It makes the
datagrid think a new line of data has started in the middle of the column.
Pete

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Paul Looney <simplsol at aol.com> wrote:

> Are there characters that prevent a Data Grid from displaying?
>
> We have Data Grid in the UI front end to a database.
> For years it has worked well with databases for many different customers.
> Recently the data from one customer would not display. Stepping through
> the code, all was well until the end - setting the dgtext of the data grid.
> The scroll bars resized properly. The number or records listed was right.
> Clicking on a line in the Data Grid opened the record viewer.
> But no data was displayed in the Data Grid fields.
>
> The same grid continued to work with data from other customers. That
> customer's data was visible in other grids.
>
> It is just that this one grid will not display data from this one account.
>
> We already strip out NULLs (from our experience with sorting problems) but
> are there other characters that would cause a Data Grid to not display data?
>
> Or should we look elsewhere?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul Looney
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