>>I have yet to find a way to show which record you are on in a grid unless the grid has focus. The closes I have come is once the grid has focus and looses focus, the row that was last selected is a different color. But, if you navigate to a different row the colored row will not change until the grid has focus again.
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>>I've looked in the MS knowledge base. Lot of neat stuff there, but not this. Could anyone give me specific code or ideas on how to highlight a grid row that corresponds to the current record when navigating without the grid having focus?
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>>I feel like I'm searching for the Holy Grail and if someone doesn't help me I'll start on my Monty Python jokes.
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>>Michael G. Emmons
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>You can do this in several ways. I store the record number of the cursor >the grid is based on, and increment it in the gotfocus event of all the >grid fields. In the init and when of the grid I have the following code,

My whole point is that my grid _does not have focus_!

>which results in the record you are on being highlighted in gray. >Onrecord is the variable that stores the cursor record number. If you >want this to work when you are off the grid, make it a method and just >set onrecord before calling it.

Doesn't work this way. :(