Background colours on imbedded browses

[Graham Wickens]

Can the background colours on Browse Tables on a form be changed? Or is it that you can have any colour as long as it is win3d?

[Stephen Williams]

RE: Background colours on imbedded browses

You can change the color of a browse column by column using the columns color properties. This is a calculated property. I use it to flash warnings on records where numbers are out of whack rather than aesthetics, but the method works...
Double click the embedded browse, click the column title to select the column, right click below the column title and select "Properties", click the "Other" tab, check the enable color equation and fill it in. E.G. "White on blue".
I have a number of nested if statements such as if(Invoice_Amt = total(Detail->Amt,GRP->Invoice),"Black on White",Black on Yellow") This makes invoice header records with incorrec Invoice_Amts leap off the screen...because those records have a yellow background while the rest are white.
You can use custom colors, also, refer to them by the name you gave them when you nade them eg "Black on Pink" or "Orange on Puce" or whatever strikes your fancy.

[Graham Wickens]

RE: Background colours on imbedded browses

Yup I've done all that, but the Browse box itself is still Grey, especially when the table does not completely fill the Browse box.!

[JerryBrightbill]

RE: Background colours on imbedded browses

Graham,
I don't think you can change a background color for a browse. If the problem is that the browse doesn't fill the width of the screen, one solution would be to put an embedded browse on a form and set the width to not show the unused space. If the problem is vertical open space, you could include a bunch of blank dummy records to fill the space. A poor solution, but one I tried for a lookup list using a browse.

I agree, it would be nice to be able change the background color of a browse. Maybe in a future update?.

Jerry

[martinwcole]

RE: Background colours on imbedded browses

If its an embedded browse, in design mode - click on a column title until the entire colum is highlighted, and then right clik to go to properties, select "border", "foreground color" - you can make each column a different color. Or, make the one you are focusing on different. You can also set column fonts differently.

A problem that I've discovered, though, is that if you also change a column cell with "other" for certain conditions, you have weird side effects. For example:

if I
(1) set the browse font to arial, 10;
(2) use "other"
----------- if(deletedt="t","dark red on white","")
----------- if(deletedt="t","arial,bold,10","arial,16")

note that arial is set to 16 - that's the size I have to use to get it to display at approximately arial,10,regular.