>I'm trying to set the highlight for the selected row in a grid to have white characters on a blue background. I have set this as follows
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.HighlightStyle = 2
>.HighlightBackColor = RGB(0,0,255)
>.HighlightForeColor = RGB(255,255,255)

>This works fine, except when the the user has selected a cell ... in which case, I get the correct back color (blue), but the forecolor, for the selected cell only, turns to black (making it essentially unreadable).
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>It appears that SelectedItemBackColor and SelectedItemForecolor are not relevant here.
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>What am I missing?
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>Thanks in advance

Right. They are controlled on the cell's level.