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Ah, thank you. Both your answers were very helpful. I do have one additional question, if you could be so kind. Am I correct in assuming that the column drawing method does not page through the records in the table on the draw? What I ended up doing was using as the first column in the dbgrid the variable I calculated as a column 1 pixel wide to set the color of the rest of the columns on that row. This works fine, I was pondering about other more elegant ways of doing this, though.<br />

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Ah, thank you. Both your answers were very helpful. I do have one additional question, if you could be so kind. Am I correct in assuming that the column drawing method does not page through the records in the table on the draw? What I ended up doing was using as the first column in the dbgrid the variable I calculated as a column 1 pixel wide to set the color of the rest of the columns on that row. This works fine, I was pondering about other more elegant ways of doing this, though.


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Wow,<br />
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Sorry I forgot to close out the question.
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Wow,

Sorry I forgot to close out the question.

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I want to color the cells of my dbgrid depending upon a variable which is calculated in a procedure invoked 'on formshow.' Currently, the 'ondrawcolumncell' event appears to happen before 'onformshow.' I'm looking for a suggestion how to paint the cells based on this calculated variable.<br />
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The data doesn't exist when the form is initially created.<br />
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I am looking for a suggestion to get the grid colored properly.
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I want to color the cells of my dbgrid depending upon a variable which is calculated in a procedure invoked 'on formshow.' Currently, the 'ondrawcolumncell' event appears to happen before 'onformshow.' I'm looking for a suggestion how to paint the cells based on this calculated variable.

The data doesn't exist when the form is initially created.

I am looking for a suggestion to get the grid colored properly.

DBgrid coloring on var calculated onformshow

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