>>>We're getting closer, I think. I made a form property gridcurrec, which I hope might have wide scope. My expression in .DynamicBackColor is recno()=THISFORM.gridcurrec. Somewhere, I need to put THISFORM.gridcurrec = recno('gridalias'). Grids don't have a .lostfocus event, and I think the controls inside the grid will think all RECNO()s in the grid are RECNO(), if you know what I mean.
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>>As Edward says, use AfterRowColChange. Here's some more complete code (now that I have time)...this will use whatever selection colors the user has set.
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>>*cursor/table is selected
>>*rgbColorB & F are user's default selected colors picked up from a textbox.
>>*The empty string says to do nothing (use your grid/column colors) if IIF is .F.
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>>nRec = recno()
>>this.SetAll("DynamicBackColor",;
>>"IIF(recno()=nRec,rgbColorB,'')","Column")
>>this.SetAll("DynamicForeColor",;
>>"IIF(recno()=nRec,rgbColorF,'')","Column")
>>this.refresh
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>>You can call this from outside grid as needed...
>When I tried your code I got an "Expression is invalid. Use a valid expression for DynamicForeColor property" and a similar one for DynamicBackColor. Since I use vfp3 and could find no documentation for rgbColorF and B, I replaced them with rgb(50,50,50) and rgb(150,150,150). Same error. What's its problem?
Bret, I tested this on my VFP3, and it works (colors are a bit off). The first section of code (with the SETALL() calls) goes in the form init. The second section into the AfterRowColChange. The only other item is a form property I called CURREC, which holds the present record. You may wish to add a "SELECT GridCursor" or use recno('gridcursor')
FORM INIT code
this.currec = recno()
thisform.grid1.SetAll("DynamicBackColor",;
"IIF(recno()=thisform.Currec,rgb(0,0,128),rgb(255,255,255))","Column")
thisform.grid1.SetAll("DynamicForeColor",;
"IIF(recno()=thisform.currec,rgb(255,255,255), rgb(0,0,0))","Column")
thisform.grid1.refresh
END OF INIT CODE
GRID AFTERROWCOLCHANGE code
LPARAMETERS nColIndex
thisform.Currec = recno()
this.refresh
END OF AFTERROWCOLCHANGE codeHTH
Barbara
