>>>Hi Nadya,
>>>
>>>This should work:
>>>

>>>myform.mygrid.column1.Sparse=.f.
>>>myform.mygrid.column1.text1.Century = 0
>>>

>>
>>Dawa,
>>
>>I was happy with the solution, but my manager noticed, that these two columns are not shown in blue color, e.g. highlight doesn't work. I seem to recall some problem with native VFP highlight implementation and sparse = .f. Am I out of luck or there is a simple solution?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>Try this:
>

>** Add a property pnRecord to your form and initilize it with 0
>myform.mygrid.column1.Sparse=.f.
>myform.mygrid.column1.text1.Century = 0
>myform.mygrid.column1.text1.BackStyle = 0
>myform.mygrid.column1.DynamicBackColor="=iif(recno(this.RecordSource)=thisform.pnRecord,this.HighlightBackColor,this.BackColor)"
>
>** AfterRowColChange event
>thisform.pnRecord=recno(this.RecordSource)
>IF m.nColIndex = 1 ; && 1 is the column1
>THEN
>  this.column1.text1.BackStyle = 1
>ELSE
>  this.column1.text1.BackStyle = 0
>ENDIF
>this.refresh()
>

Dawa,

Thanks again. I used the variation of your code. I added a new property to the grid lManualHighlight and if I set this property to true (in cases I need to use sparse = .f. for any of the column) I use Dynamic properties.

I also added some code to our cGridTextbox (unfortunately, I had to modify the MereMortals class for this). I added nBackColor and nForeColor properties to this textbox and I have:

this.nBackColor = this.BackColor 
this.nForeColor = this.ForeColor

this.BackColor = this.Parent.Parent.HighlightBackColor
this.ForeColor = this.Parent.Parent.HighlightForeColor

and restore them back in LostFocus. Seems to work nicely.

Thanks again.