Thanks Peter, I think this what the data grid does.
I can see how this works having changed to colour of the group as an experiment. How would I deal with non contiguous selections? Create an image for each one? This is starting to sound expensive time wise. All the best Terry On 10 Mar 2014, at 21:41, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: > There's another approach to this that does away with the need to set colors > at all. > > Some folks on this list have shown me in the past how to create an image > with its fillgradient set in such a way that it has alternating lines in > the required colors at the same height as the line height you are dealing > with, then setting it as a backgroundpattern. > > I've always used this in conjunction with a scrolling field with many lines > of data but it sounds this table is made up of many text fields, probably > grouped, so I tried it with a group of text fields.. > > Set the group's backgroundpattern to the id of the image. Set the group's > opaque to true. Set the opaque of the fields in the group to false. All > works fine. Group can be resized and the backgroundpattern adjusts > accordingly and you no longer need any code to set line colors except for > indicating the selectedline which I'd probably do with another image with > an appropriate background which gets positioned wherever the user clicks. > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
