Thanks everyone! Ah but yes. In this exercise I forgot that the header is in fact a button.
I have always hated the inability to change the background color of a button. For form buttons that need a colored background, I use a rounded rectangle or image with a Highlight button on top. John > On Dec 26, 2017, at 6:24 AM, Kirk Brooks via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 7:51 AM, Kirk Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wonder if you can call OBJECT SET FORMAT on them too? Probably can't >> change the button type (which looks like 3D-bevel) but that does open up >> the formatting options a bit. Simply changing the button from 3D-bevel to >> 3D-none makes them transparent and you could pretty easily manage the >> background from there with object rectangles beneath them. >> > > Ah - no. Neither OBJECT SET FORMAT or OBJECT get format work on listbox > headers in v15.5 anyway. I think the listbox header objects are buttons but > only a subset of the object formatting options are open to us mainly > involving the title, font and such. > > I did just discover I can set the help tip for each header object! > > -- > Kirk Brooks > San Francisco, CA > ======================= > > *The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do > nothing.* > > *- Edmund Burke* > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** John Baughman Kailua, Hawaii (808) 262-0328 [email protected] ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
