Text Color on Mac and Windows

Dave Cragg dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk
Wed Nov 8 16:00:27 CST 2006


On 8 Nov 2006, at 20:54, Ray Horsley wrote:

> Here's one of those things that's bothered me for some time now.   
> On the Mac I create a list behavior field, leave the default text  
> color as black and set the highlight color as something light, like  
> a light blue, to contrast against the black text.  Then I look at  
> it on Windows and discover that highlighting a line of text in the  
> field there turns it white which is all but unreadable against a  
> light blue highlight color.
>
> Anybody know how to stop text in a list behavior field from turning  
> white when clicked on Windows?

Try setting the text color of the text in the field rather than the  
color of the field itself. (Make any sense??)

Like this:

   set the forecolor of char 1 to -1 of field 1 to "0,0,0"

Cheers
Dave


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