question about foregroundColor setting

[Doug Lerner]

I thought of that, but in both cases the values are character strings. That
is, in both cases the value of the parameter evaluates to a character
string, so it should be the same.

There are no caveats about taking values from array elements are there?

doug

On 1/4/04 10:04 PM, "Thomas J McGrath III" <3mcgrath at adelphia.net> wrote:

> the second instance 'probably' has quotes put in around it versus the
> first which you put in without quotes. I don't know this but have been
> stumped by the quote thing before.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Jan 4, 2004, at 5:13 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:
> 
>> On 1/4/04 1:47 AM, "Doug Lerner" <doug at webcrossing.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have the following statement in my handler:
>>> 
>>> set the foregroundColor of the last line of field "chatField" to
>>> msgColor
>>> 
>>> If I manually set the variable msgColor beforehand to "#000000" it
>>> works
>>> fine.
>>> 
>>> But if I take the value of msgColor from an array element (I think
>>> this is
>>> what is causing the problem) I get the following error:
>>> 
>>> Type    Chunk: can't set attributes
>>> Object    mainCard
>>> Line    set the foregroundColor of the last line of field "chatField"
>>> to
>>> msgColor
>>> Hint     #000000
>>> 
>>> You can see that the value of msgColor is the same as in my manual
>>> test. And
>>> I logged it to make sure there were no extra characters in the color
>>> string.
>>> 
>>> Could the mere fact that the value came from an array element be
>>> causing the
>>> problem? I don't see why...
>> 
>> Have you tried setting the textColor as opposed to the foregroundColor?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Scott Rossi
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>> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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