Klas,
If you use my technique of two different controls in the grid column (text boxes in this case) you will not need to change the colors at all.

Barbara
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>Thanks for your help.
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>I tried to describe the problem we ran into doing this in my first message:
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>Everything works fine apart from the color of the textbox when modifying its content. Instead of the normal fore- and backcolor of the textbox it takes on the DynamicFore- and BackColor of the column, and we havn't found a way to make an override on these dynamic colors.