>>>...my grid nightmare continues...
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>>>Is there a way to change the border color of an individual cell in a grid based on the value in that cell? Or am I just dreaming of how cool something could be that can't be?
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>>Have a custom control for that, and set sparse for the column differently, so your control would display in the current row and regular textbox in the others. In the custom control's .lostFocus() and .gotFocus() set the border as you like it.
>>Or, alternately, use column's .dynamicCurrentControl and have two of those, but the expression for it would be a tad complicated (based on recno() and currently active column).
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>>Now don't ask me what's the meaning of sparse=.t. or =.f., I never managed to memorize it. If I didn't like the result, I'd change it.
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>That seems like it would only work if the cursor was in the cell? What I'm trying to do is any cell that has the character "A" in it, change the border of that cell to red.

Ah, then two controls, one with the border and one not, and dynamiccurrentcontrol checks for the content of the cell. That's simpler than I thought.