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Refresh problem using colors
petevans
Member Posts: 78
Try this:
1. Start random form.
2. Make random label
3. Make a "Text field label" (Text field with a text constant and properties set like the label above).
Notice that the text in the Text field looks different from the label even though all the properties are identical? (font, size, bold, etc.)
On my screen it looks like the Text field is more "bold" than the label.
Now minimize Navision, and then maximize it again. The texts now look identical.
This might seem like a small problem, but this gets worse if you start messing with colors, which was my intention for this application - to update colors of "Text field labels" during runtime. This problem basically makes my lovely user-color-guide ugly and not really viable.
Is there a REDRAW function or something similar I can use? Any other tips to help avoid this problem?
Thanks in advance!
1. Start random form.
2. Make random label
3. Make a "Text field label" (Text field with a text constant and properties set like the label above).
Notice that the text in the Text field looks different from the label even though all the properties are identical? (font, size, bold, etc.)
On my screen it looks like the Text field is more "bold" than the label.
Now minimize Navision, and then maximize it again. The texts now look identical.
This might seem like a small problem, but this gets worse if you start messing with colors, which was my intention for this application - to update colors of "Text field labels" during runtime. This problem basically makes my lovely user-color-guide ugly and not really viable.
Is there a REDRAW function or something similar I can use? Any other tips to help avoid this problem?
Thanks in advance!
NAVN00b
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I'm guessing that you have the ClearType smoothing effect on?
If you switch off ClearType it looks fine.
It only seems to affect textboxes where editable is set to false and the contents don't change record by record.
I've noticed it happening in other programs besides Navision but haven't really worried too much about it.
Even though all users will have to change this setting (it's default in Win XP apparently), that is fine in this case since there are few users.
Not sure I'd recommend this color-guide strategy though; I have run into a good deal of bizarre Form "features" which have caused me alot of headache - mostly related to when and how Navision refreshes controls.
But that is a topic for another post
Setting topic to [Solved] \:D/