Author: William Gerbert

How can I get rid of highlighting, focus rectangle etc. in a TDBGrid. I want the 
grid to display information only - without the user seeing highlighted cells etc. 
If I disable the grid, the user cannot use the scrollbars.

Answer:

Try this. You can adjust it to your needs:

1   
2   procedure TForm1.StringGrid1DrawCell(Sender: TObject; ACol, ARow: Integer;
3     Rect: TRect; State: TGridDrawState);
4   begin
5     if not (gdFixed in State) then
6       StringGrid1.Canvas.Brush.Color := clWindow;
7     StringGrid1.Canvas.FillRect(Rect);
8     InflateRect(Rect, -1, -1); {resize so text is not on line}
9     DrawText(StringGrid1.Canvas.Handle, PChar(StringGrid1.Cells[ACol, ARow]), -1,
10      Rect, DT_SINGLELINE or DT_VCENTER or DT_LEFT);
11  end;