David, Welcome! It would take you less than a minute in R:BASE, too, if you already knew how to do it!
You'll have to find your way to the "properties" for your controls and objects. A right-click is one way. Be sure your check box control has a sensible "Component ID" in the properties, e.g. "CheckBox1" Be sure your shape (or enhanced panel) also has a different component id, e.g. "Rectangle1" Find the "EEPS", tab, and edit the "on click" eep. Put these commands in: SET VAR vCheckBoxStatus TEXT GETPROPERTY CheckBox1 CHECKED 'vCheckBoxStatus' IF vCheckBoxStatus = 'TRUE' THEN PROPERTY Rectangle1 BORDERCOLOR 'RED' ELSE PROPERTY Rectangle1 BORDERCOLOR 'GRAY' ENDIF This works for an Enhanced Panel as your rectangle. If you use a "Shape" object, then instead of BORDERCOLOR use PEN_COLOR Mr. Buckley has a really cool R:BASE desktop application called R:DOCS that lets him look up and build every possible property or getproperty syntax. You'll have it, too, after you attend a "Super Advanced" R:BASE Training. In the meantime, you can get the equivalent at these URLs: http://www.rbase.com/property/property.php http://www.rbase.com/getproperty/getproperty.php Bill Downall On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:36 PM, David R Haslam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everyone! > > > > My name is David Haslam, and I just wanted to introduce myself. I am > working with Paul Buckley here in Plymouth MI on various rBase projects. I > must say, I'm very excited about the projects ahead. > > > > Back in 1987 / 1988 time frame, I was Application Engineering Manager for > ACE Controls in the UK. I was creating some new databases to manage the > engineering work, and I selected rBase as the tool of choice. I was > extremely happy with it. Last time I used rBase was around 1992 here in the > US (I moved to Michigan 20 years ago). Since then, Access, SQL Server, and > VB have been 90% of my development career… But, I'm happy to be back. > > > > I also have a technical question, as I'm newly "born again" to rBase. > > > > I want to create a form with a check box and a rectangle on it. I want the > rectangle to be one color if the check box is true, and switch to a second > color if the check box is false. It must change color whenever the check > box is clicked. Initially, for the testing, the check box does not need to > be linked to a field in a table. In Access or VB it would take me less than > a minute to do the whole thing. But, I've been racking my brains because I > don't know the structures and syntax in rBase yet. > > > > Any help any one can give would be much appreciated! > > > > All the best, > > David. > > > > David R Haslam > > Vice President, Business Development > > *HMSI, inc.* > > 734.259.0387 (W) > > 734.775.4555 (C) > > www.HMSI-inc.com > > > > *"OPTIMISM TODAY LEADS TO A BETTER TOMORROW."** – Candace B. Pinaud* > > >
