Line Color

RS8

Hi all,

I want to display Line items in two different background colours. blue and white as alternative. i used UPDATESELECTED function, the default windows color gets displayed in alternative lines, but when i select all items in line the background colour gets disappeared. how to make it constant. can any one suggest a solution.

matttrax

Try creating a method to set the expected color.

GetColor()
  IF CurrentColor = Blue THEN
    CurrentColor = White
  ELSE
    CurrentColor = Blue;

CurrentColor is a global that will need to be appropriately initialized. Some test cases you might look out for are if you have an odd number of lines that each line doesn't switch back and forth between colors.

kine

Regarding background - forget it, it is not worth the money. You will have only problem, problems problems... do not do that. Learn users etc..


Question is: What you want to solve by this? WHat is the main cause why customer want this?

RS8

since there are some 50 lines the customer can easily enter values by the difference in color.

kine

Background cannot be easily changed dynamically, but you can e.g. try to set BOLD font... but still, I recommend to not do that, you will have different side-effect whcih will be hard to solve and the solution will be costly. Try to use different way if it is hard for customer to navigate in the table...