Jason, Thanks ! interesting approach. Let me play with it and see what I get !
n Frank Frank Taylor - Information Technology Administrator F.J. O'Hara & Sons, Inc - Araho Transfer Inc. Boston, MA - Rockland, ME - Miami, FL Direct Dial - 617-790-3093 email: [email protected]<http://mail.whitewolftechnologies.com/cgi-bin/compose.exe?id=01ef7f9322f8a76400dacb6a1fe342bb5a7&new=&xsl=compose.xsl&[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Kramer Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:13 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Glowing Button ? Frank, Assuming you are not already using the timer for something, you can do it like this: 1 - Set a list of colors to create the glow in the On Before Start EEP for the form: SET VAR vcolorlist TEXT = '$00DE1712,$00EE3531,$00F26360,$00F79593,$00FBCBCA' SET VAR vcolorloop INTEGER = 1 SET VAR vcolordirection TEXT = 'UP' SET VAR vselcolor TEXT = NULL 2 - Activate the timer. Pick a setting that you like. 3 - Set the Timer EEP to cycle the colors on the button (my button is named pbglow): SET VAR vselcolor = (SSUB(.vcolorlist,.vcolorloop)) PROPERTY pbglow color .vselcolor IF vcolordirection = 'UP' THEN IF vcolorloop < 5 THEN SET VAR vcolorloop = .vcolorloop + 1 ELSE SET VAR vcolordirection = 'DOWN' SET VAR vcolorloop = .vcolorloop - 1 ENDIF ELSE IF vcolorloop > 1 THEN SET VAR vcolorloop = .vcolorloop - 1 ELSE SET VAR vcolordirection = 'UP' SET VAR vcolorloop = .vcolorloop + 1 ENDIF ENDIF RETURN This will give you a glowing button. You will probably need to use a longer list of colors to create a smoother glow, but you can get the idea from this. I also suspect that it would be possible to come up with a formula to calculate the color so that you don't need a list, but I don't know how R:BASE converts RGB values to the COLOR property values to do it myself. Jason Jason Kramer University Archives and Records Management 002 Pearson Hall (302) 831 - 3127 (voice) (302) 831 - 6903 (fax) On 3/14/2012 9:11 AM, Frank Taylor wrote: I am not sure if this function exists or if anyone has accomplished this in the past that they would like to share, but I would like to have a button (speed,bit,etc., or shape button) that when on the form appears to be glowing, or inviting the user to push it. I would prefer not to have a "Flashing button" that is too distracting from the other fields on the form, more of a gentle glow that grows in intensity then fades back down. I have also been looking for an animated Gif that I could use, but cannot find any that are generic enough or does not cost $30 to download... Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. Frank Taylor - Information Technology Administrator F.J. O'Hara & Sons, Inc - Araho Transfer Inc. Boston, MA - Rockland, ME - Miami, FL Direct Dial - 617-790-3093 email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
