That work-around gets close... It makes the background color work, but it does not make the highlightforecolor work properly (i.e. it ignores it).



>Yes it's a bug. You can workaround it by setting the backstyle property of the control to 0 (transparent)
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>HTH
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>>I am banging my head against the wall, and it seems there is a bug in the new grid highlight feature of VFP8.
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>>I have a colum in a grid with a dynamiccurrentcontrol setting to choose between 'text1' and 'text2' which will display the desciption of a part from either from table_a or table_b.
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>>column.sparse must be set to .F. to make the above work, but when you do, the grid highlighting does not get applied to this column, but it does work properly for all other columns.
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>>Can someone confirm this happens to you also, and maybe then play with the settings to help me fix it.