Nadya

Sorry. I'm still being dense.

>>If I set the property as you suggest: thisform.GetMyColor(EVAL(this.controlsource)) I get Expression is invalid. Use a valid expression for DYNAMICBACKCOLOR property and the method is not even called.
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>I doubt, you can do it from the property sheet, if it's what you meant.

Why not? My method executes. And it's returning an RGB value.

> I allways do it in a code... and you should surround the whole expression with quotes.

Not in the property sheet. If you want a method, then one would want the "=" woudln't one?

>Thisform.MyColor(MyTable.myField) should be in quotes. I have it working just fine in couple of projects.

That's great. But in code I gather. So I put
this.column4.DynamicBackColor = "thisform.getmycolor(eval(this.controlsource))"

In my grid init() and I get the same error. Note,the function is being evaluated (although only once).

Oh, well.