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Hi

I have managed to change all but one of the properties of the fields/cells in a grid.

Basically using the "column name 000x" in a button

set the textalign of field "Col2 0003" of group "dg2" to "CENTER" <-- works
set the textcolor of field "Col2 0002" of group "dg2" to "RED" <-- works
set the hilitecolor of field "Col2 0004" of group "dg2" to "RED" <-- nope?
set the backcolor of field "Col2 0003" of group "dg2" to "RED" <-- Nope or even backgroundcolor

I have switched off alternate row colours just in casae and it still doesnt work. To save me another few hours of spelunking could anyone (Klaus are you listening? ) tell me if this is possible and what am i doing wrong?

I have of course managed to do it using standard fields with the field name name - set the backgroundcolor of field "anyfield" to "cyan"

Kinderst Regards Lagi

Hi Lagi,

Lagi Pittas wrote:Klaus are you listening?

yes, but I think it's a trap!

Since the "internals" (what exactly a datagrid group consists of) are not documented at all,
I never bothered to examnie how to address single objects in there, sorry.

Lagi Pittas wrote:...
set the textalign of field "Col2 0003" of group "dg2" to "CENTER" <-- works
set the textcolor of field "Col2 0002" of group "dg2" to "RED" <-- works
set the hilitecolor of field "Col2 0004" of group "dg2" to "RED" <-- nope?
set the backcolor of field "Col2 0003" of group "dg2" to "RED" <-- Nope or even backgroundcolor
...

## But try this, maybe the fields are transparent:
set the opaque of field "Col2 0003" of group "dg2" to true
...

Best

Klaus

Thanks Klaus

Setting the opaque to TRUE did the trick

oops! I typed false in the original post but am confirming that setting opaque to TRUE as Klaus suggested works.


Thanks again

Lagi