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    Dynamic Color not working

    I am trying to dynamically modify the color of a text field. I have it working in part, but some of the colors are not working.

    I have a field in the database called font_color, which stores the color I want the font to be. I dynamically overrode the font color and a portion of the resulting report is attached.

    For instance, if you see the example, The font color is changing between black and green, but red does not work.

    Stranger still - red is one of the colors available from the system list, while Green is not. If anything should work incorrectly, I would have thought green!

    Any suggestions?

    #2
    Re: Dynamic Color not working

    Larry,

    The easiest way that I have found to change color of text and data is by using the dynamic properties of the object. I guess no one has responded, since you did not give any details as to how you are attempting the color change, just that it is not working.
    Bill Griffin
    Parkell, Inc

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      #3
      Re: Dynamic Color not working

      Sorry if I wasn't clear.

      In my data, I have a field called Font_Color.

      In the font_color field I have values such as Green, Black, Red, etc...

      In the dynamic properties of one of the fields on my report, I have placed the "Font_Color" field. (See attached.)

      I have tried other colors too - Purple and Orange. Only green seems to work.

      This doesn't seem like it should be so hard.

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        #4
        Re: Dynamic Color not working

        You are right, and it isn't that hard. If you click on the ... in the dynamic font properties you will open up the color equation genie, which is where you type in your expressions to choose whatever color you want, under the circumstances you want it to change. I do not beleive you can just drop a fieldname in there since it must equate to a logical value.

        See : http://wiki.alphasoftware.com/Color%20Equation%20Genie
        Last edited by Bill Griffin; 08-17-2010, 11:52 AM.
        Bill Griffin
        Parkell, Inc

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          #5
          Re: Dynamic Color not working

          But that is not true.

          The genie makes you put in a logical value, but the full expression comes out to a color.

          To see what I am talking about, add in a couple of sample expressions, and then open the "expression builder mode".

          You can see that the expression builder is just a series of case statements that evaluate to a color, not a logical value.

          I want to be able to change the color on the fly - and I can't do that very easily with the genie.

          Sure, I could pick the top 10 colors I might want to use and build a big case statement around that, but I don't think I should have to.

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            #6
            Re: Dynamic Color not working

            By the way,

            The color genie you are showing in the example is for the browse editor. The report editor has a different color genie that only allows you to modify the font color, not the font and the background at the same time - which would be cool!

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              #7
              Re: Dynamic Color not working

              If you are looking for a confirmation that it does not work the way you think it should, then you have one.

              If you want it to work, follow the Genie.

              The color genie description is the one that comes up when you hit the help key.
              Last edited by Bill Griffin; 08-17-2010, 12:49 PM.
              Bill Griffin
              Parkell, Inc

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                #8
                Re: Dynamic Color not working

                LOL!

                Thanks for the confirmation that it doesn't work :)

                I'll try to work it out with the genie to see if I can get something at least useable for now.

                If all else fails, I may submit it as a bug.

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                  #9
                  Re: Dynamic Color not working

                  I got an answer from Selwyn:

                  fields that are read from a table in a5 have trailing spaces.

                  so your expression needs to be:

                  alltrim(font_color)


                  When I use the alltrim command, it works as expected.

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                    #10
                    Re: Dynamic Color not working

                    Excellent
                    Bill Griffin
                    Parkell, Inc

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