How to change the Colors of Controls Dynamically

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  Marije_Brummel Member, Moderators Design Patterns Posts: 4,262

  2005-08-17

  Hi,
  
  You cannot change the color of Shapes. You can add a number of shapes in different colors and make them visible/unvisible.
  
  What you are trying to do has been done before, even by Navision in 4.0.
  
  Mostly the results are very poor.
  
  Better to wait for employee portal when you can combine navision data with other programs.
  
  You can also use 3rd party solutions. There are some specificly designed for Navision.
  
  Greetz,
  
  Marq

  Marije Brummel | Freelance Business Central Specialist

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  rossi Member Posts: 36

  2005-08-17

  Hi!
  
  In the OnFormat trigger of the control put a statement like
  
  CurrForm.MyControl.UPDATEFORECOLOR(colorValue);
  
  where MyControl is the name property of your control and colorValue is an integer in RGB format which represent the new color
  
  Rossi

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  Marije_Brummel Member, Moderators Design Patterns Posts: 4,262

  2005-08-17

  @Rossi
  
  A shape does not have an OnFormat trigger.

  Marije Brummel | Freelance Business Central Specialist

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  Timo_Lässer Member Posts: 481

  2005-08-17

  If you have Navision 4.0, you can get some impressions within the forms 630, 631 and 632 (Bar Charts).
  These forms draw bar charts without using 3rd party components.

  Timo Lässer
  Microsoft Dynamics NAV Developer since 1997
  MSDynamics.de - German Microsoft Dynamics Community - member of [clip]

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