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Alternate DBGrid Row Color

Tuesday May 13, 2008
in Delphi's DBGrid :: You've seen this surely on web pages. Alternating table row colors means displaying the first record in one color and the second record in another color and continue to alternate the color of each row displayed.

When working with datasets with many rows, alternating the background color of each row can increase readability.

Read the full article to learn how to Alternate DBGrid Row Color.

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May 13, 2008 at 5:50 pm
(1) Alister Christie says:

I did a similar tutorial as a video some time back, for those who are interested it’s available here:

May 13, 2008 at 10:23 pm
(2) Joe says:

When you have long lines, the problem is still there.

Grouping the grid or report in 3 lines at a time (instead of alternating every line) makes it much easier to read, especially when dealing with long lines.

May 18, 2008 at 9:25 am
(3) yanutrie wahyu says:

Good….
q mw tanya’,mank untuk pembuatan pemrograman database tu bisa diconnect ke MS. Excel???
gmn caranya???
Thanks…

February 8, 2009 at 11:19 am
(4) w says:

One problem with this solution: RecNo may not be correct when dataset is filtered.

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