[RBASE-L] - Re: Colored object in Scrolling Region

[Dawn Hast]

Sami

 

Using Karen's idea, leave the background color the same as the other fields and change the text color and maybe bold the font.  If it's null, there's no text, so the color / font won't matter.

 

Dawn

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Larry & Karen –

 

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…

 

Sami

 

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Sami:  I assume you want to change a DBEdit field?  If so, then I agree with Larry.  But Labels will evaluate fine per row.  I do that all the time.  If it's an editable field, anyway you can get around with putting words around the field in a color?  Like maybe defining a form _expression_:
  vAsterisks = (IFGT( columnname, 0, '  ', '****'))
and make the field red?

Karen

Sami -- I believe you're out of luck.  In scrolling regions, and even in the underlying Windows construct, an item repeated in each band will have the same properties.

If the object in question is text, can you fake it out by having two different objects calculated in the variables list, with the (say) red one evaluating to NULL when it should display black and the black one evaluating to NULL when it should display