Ahhhh . to those who suggested using a Variable Image on each line - THANKS! That's what I needed. (and thanks Javier for sending me your sample!)
To explain further - this scrolling region contains many lines of data and each line pertains to different Canadian provinces. I wanted a strong visual cue as to the particular province - and now I have a small image of the provincial flag on each line - works great. I just was so determined to change the color of something that I wasn't seeing an alternate method!!! Thanks to all - Sami From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 1:07 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Colored object in Scrolling Region << 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
