Alternating rows in a list

[Richard Gaskin]

Jim Lyons wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 08:01:52 -0500 Gordon Tillman wrote:
> 
>>> It's too bad HTML tables are not supported...
>>
>>
>> I guess in the meanwhile one could use the altBrowser plugin... I
>> bought a copy of that when it was released but have been so busy
>> working on other projects I haven't had a chance to play with it... :-(
> 
> 
> I bought a copy of altBrowser just to be able to create and display CSS 
> formatted text in Revolution. It works great! If you have never 
> experienced the joy of using style sheets, you owe it to yourself to 
> learn about it.

It's a great option for displaying lists, but getting at the data is 
another matter when it's in a browser control.

Xavier once posted what is in my experience the efficient solution for 
this yet:  he has a second field below the first filled with spaces and 
the background color set as you like for alternating colors, with a 
scrollbarDrag message in the top field which contains the data in order 
to synch the two.

Mr. X - got the URL handy?

You may find this a suitable holdover until we get alternating lines 
implemented natively.

FWIW, I rarely use alternating line colors myself. I recognize the 
value, but somewhere along the way it occured to me that the most 
commonly-used table views, the Windows Explorer and Mac Finder, seem to 
get along well without them.

They're a good nice-to-have, and if a client is insistent I use Xavier's 
method.  But more often than not I save the overhead and follow the 
examples of Microsoft's and Apple's file lists.

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