Workaround request - textcolor property in a field in a group

[Sarah Reichelt]

> 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
>
Jim, I don't know if this makes any difference, but I always use  
forecolor to set the color of text.

I can successfully set the color of text in a field that is a member  
of a group, but I don't have the group specified in the script. Do  
you have to use the group's name?

  Other workarounds you could try would be to specify a range of  
words or a range of characters and see if this worked. Or try using  
the RGB values for the color. Or try setting the color of your chunk  
to empty first and then setting the new color. None of these should  
be necessary, but as you are approaching your deadline, I thought I  
would offer them as things to try.

And finally, to cheer you up, a quote from Douglas Adams: "I love  
deadlines - I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." :-)

Good luck,
Sarah