Ian Chew ... Kevin Brown wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I'm trying to do something that should be sooo simple (OK I'm a newbie as far as VFP is concerned, But I have had over 10 years Xbase experience). > > > >What I need is to be able to highlight an entire row of a grid not just the current cell. I tried listboxes but with 200,000 items they take a while to fill! > > > >Regards > > > >Kev > > Hi Kev > I am also experiencing the same problem. I have a table with > 400000 records and it does take a while to refresh. I use > a grid as you did but I still prefer to use a listbox. > > Ian use the Setall("DynamicBackColor",....) property example to make the current row of a grid green while the rest are white: 1. create a form property "lnRecno" 2. in the AfterRowColChange() method put: thisform.lnRecno = recno() 3. in the grid.init() method put: this.setall("DynamicBackColor", ; "IIF(RECNO()<>thisform.lnRecno, RGB(255,255,255) ; , RGB(0,255,0))", "Column") Note the currently selected cell will still be blue with white letters. If you want the entire row to look the same as the selected cell use 2 staments 1. this.setall("DynamicBackColor","iif(..., RGB(255,255,255), RGB(0,0,128))","Column") AND 2. this.setall("DynamicForeColor","iif(..., RGB(0,0,0), RGB(255,255,255)","Column") Bill