BackgroundColor

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Ralph.  Unfortunately I need to set the background of certain
columns (by which I mean between tabs) of a line.

Interesting that it works for the whole line though.  I think I might
report it at QCC, not really a bug just an inconsistency.

Pete
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On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Ralph DiMola <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>
wrote:

> Pete,
>
> I found that this happens on setting just char(s). If you set
> backgroundcolor of the line it fills in the entire height.
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of Peter Haworth
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 4:18 PM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: BackgroundColor
>
> I am setting the backgroundcolor by script of a chunk of text in a field
> whose textSize is 16 and textHeight is 30.
>
> The backgroundcolor only hilites the text up to the textSize, the area
> between the textSize and the textHeight stays unhilited.
>
> Is there a property which will hilite the selected text for the full text
> height?  Or any other technique for achieveing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pete
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