This is a nice idea, you just have to remember to distribute the font
with your application.
To give you another solution, we had to do something similar but 
because
we did not like any symbol in any font and in any size, we decided to
make our own bitmaps and use the CellPicture and CellPictureAlignment
properties.

Marco

-----Original Message-----
From: AJAX=AE [mailto:ajax@i...]
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 10:44 PM
To: professional vb
Subject: [pro_vb] RE: How to place a Check Box in a cell in FlexGrid
Control


Unless u have absolute need to use the functionality of a checkbox, 
this is
a work around

1. reserve a column on the grid for the "check"
2. set the cellfont property to "wingdings"
3. toggle the text property of the cell between =FD (alt-0253) and =FE 
(alt -
05234) to simulate check and uncheck
4. use cellforecolor(?) property if u need to