>no, only the whole row with the active record, but not the active row.
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>the scenario is i've created a combo box that will search for a certain record. While i am typing the search text on the combobox (interactivechange) when the record is found i want to see from the grid the record highlighted eventhogh the activerow is not active. what happened is when lostfocus(combobox) then setfocus(grid) thats the time only the grid row will be highlighted (activerow) already

I see. I think you have to set focus to the grid in order of this to work. Alternatively, of course, you may have some separate field in the grid's cursor, say, lFound and use this field in your DynamicForeColor expression. I'm not sure if this is a better approach.