Question: How can a grid that is displaying read-only data have a mouse pointer that doesn't change to the I-Beam cursor?

Answer: The best way I've found to do this is to put a transparent shape over the cells portion of the grid. It only takes a little bit of code in the MouseUp to convert a mouse click on the shape to the grid cell.

* Shape MouseUp
LPARAMETERS nButton, nShift, nXCoord, nYCoord

* converts a mouse click on the shape to activate the
* underlying grid cell

dodefault()

local lnRow, lnCol, lnWidth, lnY

lnWidth = 0
nXCoord = nXCoord - this.Left

with thisform.grdMain   lnY = nYCoord - ( .Top + .HeaderHeight )
   lnRow = max( ceil( lnY / .RowHeight ), 1 )
   for lnCol = .LeftColumn to .ColumnCount
      lnWidth = lnWidth + .Columns[lnCol].Width + .GridLineWidth
      if ( lnWidth > nXCoord )
         exit
      endif
   endfor

   lnCol = lnCol - .LeftColumn + 1

   .ActivateCell( lnRow, lnCol )
endwith