Named Style Defaults

As in Microsoft Word, a Style object in True DBGrid can inherit its characteristics from another style, referred to as the parent style. For a newly created grid, the Normal style is the parent (or grandparent) of all named styles. Its default properties are as follows:

Alpha	255
BackColor	System.Drawing.Color.White
BackColor2	System.Drawing.Color.White
BackgroundImage	None
BackgroundPictureDrawMode	BackgroundPictureDrawModeEnum.Stretch
Font	Microsoft Sans Serif, 8.25pt
ForeColor	System.Drawing.Color.Black
ForeGroundImage	None
ForegroundPicturePosition	ForegroundPicturePositionEnum.LeftOfText
GammaCorrection	False
GradientMode	None
HorizontalAlignment	AlignHorzEnum.General
Locked	False
Padding	0, 0, 0, 0
Trimming	Character
VerticalAlignment	AlignVertEnum.Top
WrapText	False

The Heading and Footing styles are defined similarly. Each inherits from the Normal style, and each overrides the following properties:

BackColor	System.Drawing.SystemColors.Control
ForeColor	System.Drawing.Color.Black
VerticalAlignment	AlignVertEnum.Center

The Heading style overrides one additional property that the Footing style does not:

WrapText

True

The Selected style also inherits from Normal and overrides two color properties:

BackColor	System.Drawing.SystemColors.Highlight
ForeColor	System.Drawing.SystemColors.HighlightText

The same is True of the HighlightRow style, which uses the inverse of the color settings for the default Normal style:

BackColor	System.Drawing.SystemColors.Text
ForeColor	System.Drawing.SystemColors.HighlightText

The EvenRow, OddRow, and FilterBar styles inherit from Normal, but only the EvenRow style overrides any properties:

BackColor

System.Drawing.Color.Aqua

The only styles that do not inherit directly from Normal are the Caption and RecordSelector styles, which inherit from the Heading style. The reason that grid and split captions are centered by default is that the Caption style specializes the following property:

HorizontalAlignment

AlignHorzEnum.Center