Workaround request - textcolor property in a field in a group

[Phil Davis]

Hi Jim,

Grasping at straws here, but maybe it'll awaken something in your brain:

Does the text of field "AA" contain CRs (which define lines), or does it 
just look like multiple lines, 'soft' wrapping and and flowing without 
having any CRs in it? If the latter, that would explain why you can't 
select a chunk in line 2.

That's all I can see for the moment...

Phil Davis



Jim Ault wrote:
> Greeting group.
> 
> I am stuck trying to meet a deadline and can't remember some trivia about
> textcolor property applied to text within a field.  For some reason this
> worked last night, but now as I am getting ready to distribute.. no go.
> 
> Task > setting the textcolor of items in a field in a group this way
> 
> using tabStops + 
> set itemDel to tab
> --these work
> set the backgroundcolor of fld AA of bg "betDisplayA" to pink
> set the textcolor of fld AA of bg "betDisplayA" to darkblue
> 
> --does not work on this field, but does on others
> set the textcolor of word 2 of line 2 of fld AA of bg "betDisplayA" to green
> 
> works from the message box
> set the textcolor of word 1 of line 2 of fld comingAttractions to green
> set the textcolor of item 2 of line 3 of fld comingAttractions to green
> 
> 
> ANSWER --> I am screwed.  I did testing on a single group (background) using
> the following
> (note carefully the field specification I used to test the syntax and
> effect)
> (field AA is contained in a group, and there is only one group)
> 
> set the textcolor of word 2 of line 2 of fld AA to green --> works, so now I
> can do other programming!
> 
> I then built a whole interface on the concept of colored text using field
> chunks
> The next level of complexity was to duplicate the constructed
> [field.button.group] 8 times and write the code.
> 
> After hours of debugging other intricate tasks, I now find that setting the
> color of a text chunk will not work if the field is in a group!!!!
> 
> This may have been covered already (most likely has) but I am now at my
> deadline and have malarky to show the client.
> Add to this that the dictionary Œtextcolor¹ is linked to Œforegroundcolor¹,
> so there might be a note not to use bg whatever, but I could not get to it
> using the documentation.
> 
> Very painful and costly lesson learned here.
> Is there a workaround I could do in an hour or two? (I am pretty fast with
> Transcript)
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help
> 
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
> 
> 
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