Text Color on Mac and Windows

[Ray Horsley]

Thanks, Dave.  I'm sure that would work.  It just seems like an  
inconvenience to have to do all the time when writing for both  
platforms.  I wonder why the inconsistency?

Ray

On Nov 8, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Dave Cragg wrote:

>
> 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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