That does not work. I have a form method that does the work of setting the grid properties and its called in the form init after i populate a cursor.

I also put the code in the form's ACTIVATE method along w/ a REFRESH call to the grid and the caption on all of the command buttons are black, regardless if data is there or not.

am using:

SELECT tmpfcis
thisform.grdbase.column32.dynamicforecolor = 'IIF( EMPTY(tmpfcis.fciscomm), RGB(0,0,0), RGB(0,0,255) ) '
thisform.grdbase.Refresh()

>There should be no quotes around RGB()

>.column32.dynamicforecolor = 'IIF( EMPTY(tmpfcis.fciscomm), RGB(0,0,0), RGB(0,0,255) ) '

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>>I have a grid column that contains a command button, which launches a memo edit form when clicked. I want to color the caption of the button to be either blue if there is a value in a memo field or black if emtpy.
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>>I have tried using:
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>>.column32.dynamicforecolor = 'IIF( EMPTY(tmpfcis.fciscomm), "RGB(0,0,0)", "RGB(0,0,255)" ) '
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>>But this results in no coloring. If i use the following:
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>>.column32.dynamicforecolor = IIF( EMPTY(tmpfcis.fciscomm), "RGB(0,0,0)", "RGB(0,0,255)" )
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>>(i.e. no quotes around the IIF) the captions on all of the commandbuttons are blue.
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>>I've done this before but cant recall what worked.