>>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?
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>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:
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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()

This is a great example. Would never have thought of doing it this way, unfortunately, the textbox still stays white. I have implemented it using the DyanmicBackColor and seems to work okay.

Thanks again for all the help.