Alternating rows in a list

[Varen Swaab]

Thanks Gordon but this  example makes the text alternate in color not 
the background of the text. I presume that there is no way to do this 
based on other comments here. Table support in htmlText would be 
greatly appreciated.

Var


On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:29 PM, Gordon Tillman wrote:

> Howdy Varen,
>
> About your post:
>
>> I'm trying to format a list field which displays plain old html with 
>> a list of links. I'd like to format the list so that each link in the 
>> list is an alternating color such as white, light grey, white, light 
>> grey, etc.....
>
> Here is an example which may get you started..
>
> Given a simple stack with one card that has two fields on it:
>
> (1) field "htmlFld" that displays the information, and
> (2) field "entryFld" where you can enter sample HTML to play with.
>
>
> Field "entryFld" has the following script:
>
> on enterInField
>   set the htmlText of field "htmlFld" to me
> end enterInField
>
> And I entered the following into field "entryFld":
>
> <font color="black">Line 1
> <li><font color="green">Line 2
> <li><font color="blue">Line 3
>
> When you hit enter with the cursor in field "entryFld", then field 
> "htmlFld" displays this:
>
> Line 1
> Line 2
> Line 3
>
> The first line is black, the second line is green, and the third line 
> is blue.
>
>
> OK, here is another idea...
>
> Given a card with a field that contains the list of data to colorize, 
> this script will set the colors to alternate:
>
> on mouseUp
>   local tColor1, tColor2, tLastColor
>   put "blue" into tColor1
>   put "green" into tColor2
>   put tColor1 into tLastColor
>   local tLine
>   repeat with tLine = 1 to the number of lines of field 1
>     set the textColor of line tLine of field 1 to tLastColor
>     if tLastColor is tColor1 then put tColor2 into tLastColor
>     else put tColor1 into tLastColor
>   end repeat
> end mouseUp
>
> --gordon
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