I’m trying to understand your solution but having looked at htmlText of field I
am not getting it.
I follow that changing the colour of the field is time consuming.
Are you suggesting I can change the colour of the field using the htmlText and
the merge command?
A sample line would be useful because I am not familiar with using the
htmlText. I am familiar with merge.
Can you provide a sample line that would place some text in a field and change
the backgroundColor of the field.
All the best
Terry
On 10 Mar 2014, at 16:46, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> Since colors can only be applied directly to fields, you can't manipulate
> those in variable. But you can create htmltext and then set the field's
> htmltext at one go. In this case that's what I'd do. To get proper html for
> the field, just manually set up the field colors once and put the field's
> htmltext into the message box. Use that text as a template to script the
> changes. I frequently store template htmltext as a custom property of the
> field, with merge markers ("[[tBackColor]]"). Then when I need to update the
> htmltext, I use the merge command. It's a one-liner and very fast.
>
> I think if you use this method you will notice a dramatic increase in speed.
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