<< Thanks for the ideas – but what’s happening is that the NULL record still shows up in its own color even if I autosize the field. I’d have 12 little colored fields show up all the time on each row. And if I make them transparent, then the background color doesn’t show up at all… >> Sorry -- I thought you were changing the _font_ color, not the background color. If you want the background color, have you tried setting Autosize to ON? I'm not sure if that will evaluate on a line-by-line basis, but it might.
Failing that, perhaps this will work: 1. Make the control transparent. 2. Behind the control, place a small Variable Image field the height and width of the control. 3. Prepare some small image files of the appropriate height and width, each one simply a different color field. Store them in a table with a TEXT column index with the color name. 4. Add a VARBIT variable to the variable list and use it to load one of the images. 5. Attach the image variable to variable image control behind your value. -- Larry
