>>>How do I make a cells background color (in a grid on a from) blink?
>>You could set a dynamicbackcolor expression such as iif(seconds()%3 = 0 and ...) so it would change color every 3 secs. But being frankly I don't think it is a good idea to do it.
>>Cetin
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>Foxpro for DOS used color pairs such as B/W+ where the + made it blink (if SET BLINK was ON). Is there an equivalent in Visual FoxPro?
In fact FP DOS wasn't doing it by itself but OS and video mode. While * in FPDOS causes blinking, in VFP it causes the color to be bright (+). In DOS it was easy to blink where you had a 80*25 text screen (2000 bytes and just play with 2000 bits in bitplane to blink). Now how to do it with VFP :

* Add a property to form - blinkon
* Add a timer control
* Timer.timerinterval = 500   && Blink every 0.5 sec
* Timer.timer event
thisform.blinkon = !thisform.blinkon
ThisForm.Grid1.columns(1).refresh  && Assuming column 1 needs blinking

* Grid1.columns(1).dynamicbackcolor =
* iif(thisform.blinkon,rgb(255,255,128),rgb(0,0,255))

Main drawback refresh for that column would be called periodically every timerinterval. Thus extra code (if any) would be affected. Other than that I didn't see performance loss even with 50000+ recs (fortunately dynamicbackcolor and refresh knows it had to deal only with the visible part).

Cetin