>Hi All
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>I have been trying to get a grid to change forecolor when someone changes the data in a grid. I have tried several methods and what I have found is the object model is not working as I thought is should. I wrote a litte test program that displayed the object name in the debug window and the following results
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>dynamicforecolor = checkname(this.name)
>What I found was the name returned was the grid name not the column name. What I need to do is to change the color useing a variation of getfldstate(this.controlsource) but I can't do this if I can't get a reference to the column object. I also have complicated this even more by having some columns with a container of two text objects. This would work as well if I could get the column reference.
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>Any ideas would be appreciated.
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>Thanks.

James,
In dynamic* setting 'this' always refers to grid itself. In init code dynamicbackcolor to have column refrerence :

with this
 for each oColumn in .Columns
   oColumn.DynamicForeColor = '(thisform.CheckName('+oColumn.Controlsource+'))'
 endfor
endwith

Also there is varread() that would work to a point.
Cetin