properties vs local variable

[Terence Heaford]

I’m trying to understand your solution but having looked at htmlText of field I am not getting it.

I follow that changing the colour of the field is time consuming.

Are you suggesting I can change the colour of the field using the htmlText and the merge command?

A sample line would be useful because I am not familiar with using the htmlText. I am familiar with merge.

Can you provide a sample line that would place some text in a field and change the backgroundColor of the field.

All the best

Terry


On 10 Mar 2014, at 16:46, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> Since colors can only be applied directly to fields, you can't manipulate those in variable. But you can create htmltext and then set the field's htmltext at one go. In this case that's what I'd do. To get proper html for the field, just manually set up the field colors once and put the field's htmltext into the message box. Use that text as a template to script the changes. I frequently store template htmltext as a custom property of the field, with merge markers ("[[tBackColor]]"). Then when I need to update the htmltext, I use the merge command. It's a one-liner and very fast.
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> I think if you use this method you will notice a dramatic increase in speed.