How to color a "cell"?

[Craig Newman]

Richard.

I think this was discussed on the forum a while back. I do not believe you can do what you want without another control overlying the “rect” of the “cell”.

Craig

> On Jun 22, 2022, at 8:11 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I need to set the backgroundColor of a complete "cell", where "cell" is
> defined as the portion of a row in a table field between tabs when the
> vGrid is set.
> 
> I had hoped the paragraph-level formatting options introduced in v5.x would help, but alas as far as I can tell I can only set the backgroundColor of a run of text, not the full cell.
> 
> Anyone know a way to do this WITH FIELD/TEXT PROPERTIES ONLY?
> 
> (Pardon the all-caps, but I can come up with many workarounds that include other objects, but I really need something here that works with one field object and nothing else.)
> 
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> Richard Gaskin
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