This technique should be a good choice and not deliver a speed hit, since there cannot be more that a few fields where anyone would use the background color of each line.
some extra steps that might help the look and feel: setting the border of the field behind to 0 setting the left of the field behind further left because of margins setting the margin of both fields to 4 Of course, the scrolling field is more of a problem, so I built a scrolling group with both fields as non-scrolling, then set to the formattedheight of the data field. One extra touch is to set the blendLevel of the back field if the colors are too intense. I used a backing field set to gray50, did the line coloring using the space runs, then set the blendlevel to 30. Looks very readable. I have quick built a working stack that does all of the above, if anyone is interested. Thanks, Ken :-) Jim Ault Las Vegas On 6/23/07 6:40 AM, "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:02:41 +1000, Sarah Reichelt wrote: > >> However, the blue background for line 2 only covers the actual text, >> it doesn't fill the line. > > Right - to fill a complete line, my recommendation is to use two list > fields; the one in front is transparent (opaque=false), and the one in > back is opaque. For every line of text in the front field, make a line > of text in the back field that is all spaces (all the way across and a > little beyond the right margin of the back field). Then, set the > HTMLText of any of the lines in the back field to the color you want as > we've discssed previously. It's a bit of a hack, but it works... > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:02:41 +1000, Sarah Reichelt wrote: I made a field and set the forecolor of mine 1 to red, and the backcolor of line 2 to blue. This is what the htmlText of the field then becomes. <p><font color="#FF0000">Line 1</font></p> <p><font bgcolor="#0000FF">Line 2</font></p> However, the blue background for line 2 only covers the actual text, it doesn't fill the line. _______________________________________________ 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
