How to colorize grid in in ax for normal form

How to color records in a grid is a common user request that can be found on the web.

Actually, this is quite simple to achieve in Ax, with only a small modification. The trick is to override the displayOption method on the form's datasource.
Non-overriden, it looks like this:

public void displayOption(Common _record, FormRowDisplayOption _options)
{ 
super(_record, _options);
}

By using the options object, an object of class FormRowDisplayOption, you can set the background color.

_options.backColor(myColor);

You can use the record information from _record to set any background you want, where each row in the grid can have a different background color..

For that reason, it may be better to change it's type to the specific table used in the datasource.

Like this:

override displayoption method of form datasource :

public void displayOption(CustTable _CustTable,FormRowDisplayOption _options)
{ int myColor=WinApi::RGB2int(50,255,50);
;
if(_CustTable.Currency=='EUR')
_options.backColor(myColor);
super(_CustTable, _options);
}

In the example above, we color code our customers in the form CustTable. (Remember: Changes go in the methods of the form's datasource.) Customers with currency EUR get a green color.