Alternating Lines in a listbox

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Tue Nov 28 20:39:20 EST 2006


>> I thought I'd ask if any solutions have been found to the
>> alternating lines in a list box issue (the old "make it look like ITunes"
>> dilemma).
> 
> Scott Rossi replied:
> <With Rev 2.7 it's fairly easy.  Create an image that the two colors you
> want
> stacked one above the other, with the height of each "bar" equal to the
> textheight of your list field.  Set the backPattern of your list field to
> the ID of the image and you should be good to go.
> ...

Recently, Jim Lambert wrote:
> This doesn't seem to work on win98. Only the 'top' color appears. Same stack
> on OSX is fine.
> Any ideas (besides updating to XP! ;) )

Perhaps Win98 is simply too old to take advantage of the new code found in
Rev 2.7.  You may have to use one of the hacked solutions for Rev 2.6.x to
get the effect on that OS.  Sorry, I don't know of any other options.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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