Workaround request - textcolor property in a field in a group

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 6:11 PM -0500 7/27/2005, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>Jim Ault wrote:
>
>>--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
>
>I just tried this. I get a failure with the above syntax, but 
>success if I substitute "grp" for "bg". That is, this works:
>
>set the textcolor of word 2 of line 2 of fld AA of grp "betDisplayA" 
>to "green"
>
>This may not work if you aren't on the right card currently, as 
>"grp" isn't a valid reference if it isn't placed on the current card.

...although it should be noted that you can refer to a group on 
another card if you specify the card, e.g. 'field "AA" of group "Foo" 
of card "bar"'.


>Note the quotes around the color name. Even though they are 
>constants, the MC docs say color names should always be in quotes, 
>so that is my habit.

Actually, the color names aren't true constants (that is, they aren't 
in the constantNames). They're literals; as with other one-word 
literals, you can get away with not quoting them, but as you note 
it's not good practice.
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