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    #1

    Yet another question

    I have a small toolbar that I have on top of the screen. The rest of the block from the right end of the toolbar to the left of the screen is almost the color of this message box. Is there a way to change the color of the entire block across the top of the screen?

    Scott
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    #2
    Re: Yet another question

    See this thread

    http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...=toolbar+color

    Look at the next to last post by Selwyn. I have used this and it works


    Tom

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      #3
      Re: Yet another question

      Tom,

      Thank you, works great. Just one thing, were do I set the color. My screen is a custom dark blue and now the toolbar does cover the entire top, it is a tan color.

      Thanks

      Scott

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        #4
        Re: Yet another question

        Scott

        Open you toolbar in design mode. Click on the toolbar appearance tab. The second feature down is Color and font (see thumbnail). Put the color in the box.

        Tom

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          #5
          Re: Yet another question

          Tom,

          I just found it 2 minutes ago.

          Thanks for everything.....I'm done with this.

          Scott

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            #6
            Re: Yet another question

            Sort of related to this. How can I change the fill setting for the toolbars background - mine are all gradient horiz middle and I need solid? There's no setting for this in the toolbar editor.

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              #7
              Tollbar settings

              Nick

              I believe that the background style of the tool bar is going to be directly related to the Windows setting in the windows properties - which is all gradient style in windows classic and windows xp - in win 7 if my memory serves me, it is the transparent look (but I may be wrong - I haven't looked at a win7 machines since yesterday:)

              So to answer your question, since alpha takes the system style and then adds the color, the toolbar will be whatever is in the windows appearances as far as style

              Just my belief.

              Maybe someone else with have something else to say on the this matter since this post will bump it to the top

              Tom

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                #8
                Re: Yet another question

                Thanks, Tom - that makes sense although it was not what I wanted to hear. I had another question about toolbars (button spacing and flyover) that I posted in the v9 forum http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...ad.php?t=92961 Any ideas??

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                  #9
                  Re: Yet another question

                  OK, so the flyover question seems to be the same as the fill, it takes the windows default. I will have to do some further experiments to check finally. But what about the background size issue for buttons on the toolbar, and the button spacing??

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                    #10
                    Re: Yet another question

                    Nick

                    You change the font setting for the button text in the toolbar appearance tab of the toolbar in design mode.

                    As as spacing, you could use the XD free form xdialog. You add that before your button and after your button. You code the xddialog free form in the toolbar by adding it to the toolbar and then clicking on the button on the genie "Define Xdialog Code". When the script editor comes up you type

                    Code:
                    {text=5,1junktext}
                    That simply gives you 5 spaces (or thereabout) and assgns a blank value to junktext- make sure you don't already have a variable called junktext) This was courtesty of Selwyn many years ago.

                    I use it all the time to give more separation between buttons on the toolbar and the fill out the end of the toolbar to the end of the form (or further).

                    Hope this helps

                    edit. The Text=5,1junktext is just an xdialog. You can make text=1000 or whatever and alpha will create spacing a long way off the form. The 1junktext is just saying that the line heigh is 1, you could put 2 or 3 or 5 etc, but until you get to around 5 the increase is almost non existent. I don't use that and have not tinkered with the line height so I can't give you a number. I do know 5 makes the height of the button larger.

                    Tom
                    Last edited by Tbaker; 03-21-2011, 03:08 PM. Reason: addded information

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                      #11
                      Re: Yet another question

                      Thanks for the help.
                      I can change the font size no problem (although I am not doing that because I am using Photoshop images for all the buttons.
                      It is a vertical toolbar and my problems are (1) I can't get a button style that has no background, whatever I do I always get space around the button. The a5_toolbar_def_load help says "Modern Style buttons have a colored background and border when they have focus (this style is consistent with Windows XP). If you select the Modern toolbar style, you can select different button background colors and border styles." but selecting the Modern style does not seem to give me those options.
                      And (2) I want to stack all my vertical buttons together with no spaces between and I can't find a way of doing this.

                      And I do use selwyn's idea to fill out to the end of the toolbar, that works fine.

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