Hi Cetin,

Thanks for your previous detail posting. I have already spent some time with it to understand your technique and adapt it to suit my particular situation.

David


>David,
>Then pay attention to auxillary cursor usage in my post. That thechnique is flexible and you can have any filter and/or order.
>Cetin
>
>>Hi Everybody,
>>
>>Thanks for your generous help, which provide me with a lot of insight in how to solve my problem. In my particular case, the cursor has filter on hence it will take a bit more effort in implementing the highlight mechanism.
>>
>>David
>>
>>>>Hi, I know how to highlight alternative rows in a grid by using grid.dynamicforecolor and recno(), but I am scratching my head in how to highlight every other two rows in a grid, e.g. I need to highlight row 1&2, 5&6, 9&10, etc in the grid.
>>>>
>>>>Any suggustion? TIA
>>>
>>>with no filter, no deleted, no index
>>>you can use recno()
>>>
>>>Then:
>>>

>>>CLEAR
>>>? "1-1"
>>>FOR RECNO=1 TO 10
>>> ? RECNO,BITTEST((RECNO-1)/1,0)	&& or BITTEST(RECNO-1,0) or NOT BITTEST(RECNO,0)
>>>NEXT
>>>
>>>? "2-2"
>>>FOR RECNO=1 TO 10
>>> ? RECNO,BITTEST((RECNO-1)/2,0)
>>>NEXT
>>>? "3-3"
>>>FOR RECNO=1 TO 10
>>> ? RECNO,BITTEST((RECNO-1)/3,0)
>>>NEXT
>>>

>>>
>>>with filter or deleted or index
>>>the calculation is the same, but it needs to use the order position.