How to use backgroundColor

Jérôme Rosat jrosat at mac.com
Sun Dec 19 17:25:00 EST 2004


Bonsoir Thierry,

Thanks for your answer. It's help me a lot. I'm going to try the 
pattern solution.

Jérôme

Le 19 déc. 04, à 23:10, Thierry Arbellot a écrit :

> Bonsoir Jérome,
>
> I had the sample problem in one of my app.
> I used 2 different workarounds:
> 1. pad the line with enough space characters to make the line have the 
> same width as the field
> 2. make the field transparent and display a colored rectangle behind 
> each line
>
> If your target is just to have white and blue lines alternatively, you 
> can put a pattern in the background of the field. But there are some 
> restrictions on the pattern size, like 16 or 32 pixels.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Thierry
>
> On Sunday, Dec 19, 2004, at 21:17 Europe/Paris, Jérôme Rosat wrote:
>
>> James,
>>
>> What I'm trying to do is:
>>
>> - line 1 of my list field: background color white
>> - line 2 of my list field: background color light blue
>> - line 3 of my list field: background color white
>> - line 4 of my list field: background color light blue
>> - etc.
>>
>> like a selected line. But the "backgroundcolor of line"  property 
>> don't change the color of the entire line, only the background of the 
>> text.
>>
>> The foregroundcolor  property "specifies the color of object text" 
>> not the background.
>>
>> Jérôme
>>
>>
>> Le 19 déc. 04, à 20:55, James Cass a écrit :
>>
>>> Jérôme -
>>>
>>> I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do, but have you tried 
>>> using foregroundcolor instead of backgroundcolor?
>>>
>>> HTH....James
>>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 19, 2004, at 11:55 AM, Jérôme Rosat wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bonjour à tous,
>>>>
>>>> I try to change the background color of pair lines in a list field.
>>>>
>>>> This is my code:
>>>>
>>>>  if vLigne/2 = trunc(vLigne/2) then set the backgroundColor of line 
>>>> vLigne of field "fListeIcones" to "lightblue"
>>>>
>>>> But only the background color of the text in the line change in 
>>>> light blue.  Not all the line (for example the background color 
>>>> don't change under tab) and not in all the hight of the line.
>>>>
>>>> How to change the background color of an entire line in  a list 
>>>> field ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your answers.
>>>>
>>>> Jérôme Rosat
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