Greeting group. I am stuck trying to meet a deadline and can't remember some trivia about textcolor property applied to text within a field. For some reason this worked last night, but now as I am getting ready to distribute.. no go.
Task > setting the textcolor of items in a field in a group this way using tabStops + set itemDel to tab --these work set the backgroundcolor of fld AA of bg "betDisplayA" to pink set the textcolor of fld AA of bg "betDisplayA" to darkblue --does not work on this field, but does on others set the textcolor of word 2 of line 2 of fld AA of bg "betDisplayA" to green works from the message box set the textcolor of word 1 of line 2 of fld comingAttractions to green set the textcolor of item 2 of line 3 of fld comingAttractions to green ANSWER --> I am screwed. I did testing on a single group (background) using the following (note carefully the field specification I used to test the syntax and effect) (field AA is contained in a group, and there is only one group) set the textcolor of word 2 of line 2 of fld AA to green --> works, so now I can do other programming! I then built a whole interface on the concept of colored text using field chunks The next level of complexity was to duplicate the constructed [field.button.group] 8 times and write the code. After hours of debugging other intricate tasks, I now find that setting the color of a text chunk will not work if the field is in a group!!!! This may have been covered already (most likely has) but I am now at my deadline and have malarky to show the client. Add to this that the dictionary textcolor¹ is linked to foregroundcolor¹, so there might be a note not to use bg whatever, but I could not get to it using the documentation. Very painful and costly lesson learned here. Is there a workaround I could do in an hour or two? (I am pretty fast with Transcript) Thanks in advance for your help Jim Ault Las Vegas _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
