>Hi all:
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>I have a grid with a couple of text boxes that hold cost, price, and available. I retrieve live-price information and need to indicate the changes by changing the background color of the text box.
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>If the cost goes down, the background should change for that particular textbox to green.
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>The problem i'm having is when I change the backcolor property, the textbox background stays white unitl i select the textbox. How can I have that particular box show green background whether selected or not?

Subclass the textbox, and add an assign method to the value property; in the value_assign, add the following code before assigning the new value passed in to the property value:

IF m.NewValue < this.value
   this.backcolor = RGB(0,255,0)
   this.disabledbackcolor = RGB(0,255,0)
ELSE
   this.backcolor = RGB(255,255,255)
   this.disabledbackcolor = RGB(230,216,174)
ENDIF
=this.refresh()