damn

[Ken Ray]

Don't use a scrolling field. Make a tall transparent field with the colored
boxes behind it, then group them together and size the group to be smaller.
Show the vertical scrollbar and voila! simulated scrolling field with
alternate-colored lines.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Lord" <slord at mac.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: damn


> Yeah, but what happens when the user scrolls the fld?  I want
> those lines to scroll as well.
>
>
> On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 12:53 AM, andu wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > --On Wednesday, June 26, 2002 00:13:32 -0400 Simon Lord
> > <slord at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I wish to alter the colour of every second line in a fld.  If
> >> any of you
> >> are running a Mac then in the iTunes app you'll see that all
> >> odd lines in
> >> your song list are white while the even lines are pale blue.  I tried
> >> using a pattern but failed to realize that the pattern was fixed.
> >>
> >> So, in the hopes that a solution exists, is there a way to
> >> have each odd
> >> or even line be alternate colour?  If you're unnsure of what I
> >> mean, here
> >> is a link to Apple's site which has an image that shows you
> >> what I mean:
> >>
> >> http://www.apple.com/itunes/
> >
> > You can do that using a transparent field and colored
> > rectangles behind it.
> >
> >>
> Sincerely,
> Simon
> >>
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