Hi Joel,

There's also another technique that works well for this - the GetSysColor() API call.

declare integer GetSysColor in win32api integer
? getsyscolor(13) && Highlight backcolor
? getsyscolor(14) && Highlight forecolor
? getsyscolor(5) && Window (non-highlighted) backcolor
? getsyscolor(8) && Window forecolor

The full list of the parameter values are in the WINAPI Header files, or, more conveniently, in this KB article: HOWTO: Change the BackColor of a ToolBar When it is Docked (Q39291)

So you could change the SetAll calls to something less ugly that what I originally posted like (not tested):

this.setall("DynamicBackColor", "iif(recno() = this.nRecordNumber, GetSysColor(13), GetSysColor(5)", "Column")
this.setall("DynamicForeColor", "iif(recno() = this.nRecordNumber, GetSysColor(14), GetSysColor(8)", "Column")

Of course, you'd need to make sure that you'd declared the API call before the SetAll calls were made.

Cheers,

Andrew

>I am using the common technique of setting the DynamicBackColor and DynamicForeColor properties of all columns to highlight a row in a grid. I would like the color of the row to match the Windows Display Properties. I thought about adding a textbox as a property to the grid at runtime and getting the SelectedForeColor and SelectedBackColor properties from it. Is there a better way to do this, perhaps one that uses fewer clock cycles? I don't want to depend on a certain control being in a column.
>
>I noticed a different method mentioned on the ProFox list that uses a textbox to simulate highlighting the row instead of Dynamic color properties, but the download at leafe.com was corrupted. If someone wouldn't mind emailing this to me (jleach@mbs-intl.com), maybe I can kill two birds with one stone. Thanks.