On Mar 3, 2010, at 7:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Ian Wood wrote:
I just had a quick try but can't see how to apply a backgroundpattern
to anything less than the whole field.
Mea culpa.
According to the dictionary RevTalk allows backgroundColor for
chunks, and backgroundPattern for fields, and textPattern/
foregroundPattern for chunks, so I was a little optimistic about the
orthogonality of the implementation.
But in trying it here, you're right, it seems the backgroundPattern
cannot be applied to chunks.
This inconsistency seems worth addressing, since doing so has
practical application as you've noted, so I logged it as a request:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=8645>
Is this one of those "why not just do it, looks simple" things that
runs into the apparently huge complexity of the field object? Which I
seem to recall Scott Raney describing as the "monster" it terms of
complexity.
Meanwhile, Firefox and other browsers use backgroundcolor to identify
found text, so that technique is not foreign to most users, though
it's not quite what would be perfect. But as the late Robert Parker
said (via Spenser), "It's almost never perfect."
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
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