Thansk for your comments. The issue is that I have a lot of these kind of "status" columns. I also would like the implementation be such that it can be incorporated to the DW, s a function to decide the background color.

The current implementation is based on that - the columns vackgroud color call function f_getbackgroundcolour(status code) and the function then has hardcode values for diffenet codes . the function return RGB(r,g,b).

What i'm looking for is more dynamic solution where the r,g and b do come from the drop-down-list.
I could retrieve the values from the database but that adds quite a lot of overhead and as the drop-down-list already has the values I was hoping to use those.

Hi Kari

 Does the main datawindow only ever have one row?

If yes, you could use the itemchanged and the retrieveend events to look up the rgb values in the dddw for the currently selected value. Then you can modify the main datawindow to change the background color of the affected control.

// Sample code for the itemchanged event

datawindowchild ldw_child
long ll_row_child, ll_rgb

IF <Status Column was changed> THEN
    main_dw.GetChild('<DDDW column in main DW>', ldw_child)

    ll_row_child = ldw_child.find( '<status column in DDDW> = ' + data , 1, ldw_child.rowcount( ) )

    ll_rgb = ldw_child.getitemnumber( ll_row_child, '<rgb column in DDDW>' )

    // Now modify the main DW to display the color
END IF

If the main datawindow has more than one row, you'd have to add another column "backgroundcolor" to the main datawindow and set the backgroundcolor of the control to that value. In that case you'd write the rgb value from the dddw to that column in the itemchanged event instead of modifying the main dw.

Hope that helps you get started.

Regards,
Markus