>Hi,
>
>I have a grid where the first column is a text box, and the other columns are editboxes. I want the backcolor of the editbox to be different if the controlSource (a memo field in a cursor) is not empty. I have the following to achieve that:
>
>

>FOR EACH loCol IN .COLUMNS
>WITH loCol
>  .FONTSIZE = 8
>  .Header1.FONTBOLD = .T.	&& all columns
>
>  IF .COLUMNORDER = 1
>    .Text1.DISABLEDFORECOLOR = .Text1.FORECOLOR
>  ELSE
>    .SPARSE = .F.	&& so we can always see contents of memo field
>
>** set all appts to have yellow backcolor
>    .DYNAMICBACKCOLOR="IIF("+loCol.CONTROLSOURCE+"='',RGB(255,255,255),RGB(255,255,128))"
>  ENDIF
>ENDWITH
>

>
>It works fine UNTIL I make the column/editbox Read-only - then the editbox always has a backColor of white.
>
>To help zero in on the problem, I changed one of the columns that had an editbox to be a textbox, and the color for THAT column apprears properly, i.e., looks like DynamicBackColor works properly for columns w/read only text boxes, but not read only edit boxes.
>
>Any help/insight to this problem? TIA. J

Jill,
When RO it gets color from disabledback/forecolor. Do not set to readonly but control RO indirectly with KeyPress. ie:

if nKeyCode>31
nodefault
endif

Cetin