Color (Property)

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Font variable
Color of an edit control
Text color in a Static control
Text color of a Button control
Color of the text in a Radio Button or Check Box control
Color of the text in a List Box or Combo Box control
Color of a TreeView control
Text color of a cell, row or column in a Table control
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Color (Property)

In french: Couleur

The Color property is used to get or change the font color for:

a variable of type Font.
text displayed in a Static or Calculated control of a report.
text displayed in a window control.
text displayed in a page control.
text in a menu option.

The effects of the Color property depend on the type of control (for more details, see "Remarks").

Remark: A Font variable is black by default.

Example

// The text color is modified according to the displayed value
IF EDT_Total>15000 THEN
EDT_Total.Color = LightRed
END

// Define the characteristics of a Font variable
Font1 is Font
Font1.Name = "Arial"
Font1.Color = LightYellow
Font1.Size = 14
Font1.SizeUnit = unitPoint
Font1.Orientation = 45
// Apply the font to "MyControl"
MyControl.Font = Font1

Syntax

Finding out the text color Hide the details

<Result> = <Element used>.Color

<Result>: Integer or constant

Color of the specified element. This color can correspond to:
an RGB color (returned by RGB),
a preset color.
The color is returned as a string by the browser.

<Element used>: Control name or Font variable

Name of element for which the text color must be found. This element can correspond to:
the name of a control in a window or in a page.
the name of a report control.
name of a variable of type Font.

Changing the text color Hide the details

<Element used>.Color = <New color>

<Element used>: Control name or Font variable

Name of element for which the text color must be modified. This element can correspond to:
the name of a control in a window or in a page.
the name of a report control.
name of a variable of type Font.

<New color>: Integer or constant

New color for the specified element. This color can correspond to:
an RGB color (returned by RGB),
an HSL color (returned by HSL),
a preset color.

Remarks

Font variable

A font can be created from a Font variable.

To define the font characteristics, use:

the FontCreate function.
the Charset, Orientation, StrikeOut, Color, Bold, Italic, CharacterSpacing, LineSpacing, Name, Underline, Size and SizeUnit properties.

This font can be used:

To write text in drawings (dFont).
To write in charts (grLabelFont, grLegendFont, grTitleFont and grAxisTitleFont).
To print (iFont).
In the controls of a window (Font property).
In the controls of a report (Font property).

Assigning a font to a control:

if the Font variable has no specific color, the color of the text displayed in the control is kept.
if the Font variable has a specific color, this color is applied to the text displayed in the control.

Color of an edit control

The Color property is used to get and change the color of the text entered in a control.

Text color in a Static control

The Color property is used to get and change the text color of a Static control.

Text color of a Button control

The Color property is used to get and change the text color of a Button control.

Color of the text in a Radio Button or Check Box control

The Color property is used to get and change the text color of all the options of a Radio Button or Check Box control.

Color of the text in a List Box or Combo Box control

The Color property is used to get and change the text color of all the options in a List Box control.

Color of a TreeView control

The Color property is used to get and change the color of all the labels displayed in a TreeView control.

To find out or modify the text color of an option in the TreeView control, specify the element with one of the following syntaxes:

TreeViewName[RowNum]
TreeViewName[<Element path>] where Element path is a character string in the following format:
"<Root name>" + TAB + ["<Name of 1st node>" + TAB +...
["<Name of 2nd node>" + TAB + [...]]]"<Leaf name>"
Examples:

TREE_TreeView2[2].Color = LightGreen // Colors the second row green

TREE_MyTreeView["Recipe" + TAB + "Dessert"].Color = LightRed

Text color of a cell, row or column in a Table control

To find out or modify the text color of an option in a Table control, specify the cell with the following syntax: TableName[RowNum][ColumnNum].
For example, the following code is used to modify the color of the text displayed in the cell on the first row, second column:
TABLE_Table1[1][2].Color = DarkBlue

To find out or modify the text color of a row in a Table control, specify the row with the following syntax: TableName[RowNum].
To get or change the text color of a column in a Table control, simply use the Color property with the column name.

Caution: To keep the text color when selecting a row in a Table control based on a data file, simply use the Color property in the "Select a row" event.

The Color property is available in browser code only for Table controls in "Browser" mode on:

Table rows (browser).
Table columns (browser).
Table cells (browser).

This property is not available in browser code for Table controls in "Server" or "Server + AJAX" mode.

Limitations

Limitations on report controls
The Color property has no effect on:

Image controls.
Bar Code controls.
RTF controls.
Check Box controls.
Chart controls.
Signature controls.
reports.
report blocks.

The Color property can only be used in the following controls:

edit controls.
List Box controls.
Combo Box controls.
Static controls.
elements of a List Box control.
elements of a Combo Box control.
HTML Static controls.
3-state Button controls.
formatted display controls.
browser table rows.
browser table columns.
browser table cells.