[RBASE-L] - RE: Custom Colors In Reports? - EUREKA!

[Wills, Steve]

I found it.  It took some digging around, but, buried in a
"WhatsNewInRBASETurboV8forWindows.pdf", ca. FEB/MAR on Page 8, was this
little nugget:

   * RGB color support for the PROPERTY command for BLINKCOLOR. PROPERTY
<LabelComponentID>
     BLINKCOLOR '[R255,G0,B0]'


So, I went back to try again and, when I modified the statement to :

   PROPERTY BF4_OBLIGATED_CHANGE COLOR '[R255,G160,B128]'


Voila!  It worked.

Now, many of y'all might already know about this nuance, but I didn't.
If it helps someone else, great, because this cool little feature is
gonna' help me and some of my users.


Still having fun with these challenges,
Steve

 
-----Original Message-----
From: rbase-l@rbase.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wills,
Steve
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 1:52pm 13:52
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Custom Colors In Reports?

This is a follow-up to yesterday's "Which Approach to Conditionally &
Dynamically"Create" Control on Report?" question.

I have a variable in a report which is assigned a value from a field/DB
Text, vBF4_OBLIGATED_CHANGE and OBLIGATED_CHANGE, respectively.  If this
value is 0 or less, I want to change the (background) color of the
control.

Here is a block in the BEFORE GENERATE EEP:

IF (.vBF4_OBLIGATED_CHANGE) <= 0 THEN
   PROPERTY BF4_OBLIGATED_CHANGE FONT_COLOR 'BLACK'
   PROPERTY BF4_OBLIGATED_CHANGE COLOR 'YELLOW'
ELSE
   PROPERTY BF4_OBLIGATED_CHANGE FONT_COLOR 'BLACK'
   PROPERTY BF4_OBLIGATED_CHANGE COLOR 'WHITE'
ENDIF


This works.  

However, this statement does not :

   PROPERTY BF4_OBLIGATED_CHANGE COLOR 'CYAN'


Nor does :

   PROPERTY BF4_OBLIGATED_CHANGE COLOR 'LIGHT CYAN'


(Interestingly, each and every failed attempt changed the background to
green.)


Also interesting, these statements do work :

   PROPERTY BF4_OBLIGATED_CHANGE COLOR 'ActiveCaption'

   PROPERTY BF4_OBLIGATED_CHANGE COLOR 'AQUA'


So, my questions are:
1) Which colors are available for changing the background of a DB Text
in Reports?
2) Where are their "names" found/stored?
3) Can I add new colors or redefine existing, in either case using R,G,B
values?



Thanks,
Steve in Memphis




J. Stephen Wills
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