properties vs local variable

[Peter Haworth]

I'm guessing the opaque property of the fields is true - try setting it
false and see what happens.  Also just made another post with a way to do
this without setting any line colors.

Pete
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Terence Heaford
<t.heaford at btinternet.com>wrote:

> Thanks for your help.
>
> It did not work initially but a bit of google identified the # is not
> required with RGB colours.
>
> However, when using this it only colours the bgcolor behind the text and
> not the whole field.
>
> Here is my test script.
>
>  put "255,255,255" into tFontColor
>  put "62,117,215" into tBackColor
>  put "This is my text" into tText
>  put merge("<font color=[[quote]][[tFontColor]][[quote]]
> bgcolor=[[quote]][[tBackColor]][[quote]]> [[tText]] </font>") into tHTML
>  set the htmlText of fld "result" to tHTML
>
> As it's HTML I am assuming it's not possible to colour the whole field
> using this method?
>
> All the best
>
> Terry
>
> On 10 Mar 2014, at 20:04, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > So using one of your examples you would set the htmltext of field x to
> > "<font color="#255,255,255" bgcolor="#62,117,215"> this is my text
> </font>
>
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