Hi Peter: I didn't think backgroundColor would span the entire row (line) but it seems like your option could work -- thanks very much.
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 3/25/14 1:58 AM, "Peter W A Wood" <peterwaw...@gmail.com> wrote: >Scott > >I'm not sure whether you were dreaming or not, but I couldn't find >anything about alternate rows colours with htmlText or styledText. > >Were you looking to avoid having to do something like this? > > put the height of field "Field" into tFieldHeight > put the effective textHeight of field "Field" into tTextHeight > put tFieldHeight into tNumOfLines > divide tNumOfLines by tTextHeight > put the round of tNumOfLines into tNumOfLines > put tNumOfLines into field "Field" > repeat with tLine = 1 to tNumOfLines > put tLine mod 2 into tOdd > if tOdd = 1 then > put "Red" into tBackGrdCol > else > put "Blue" into tBackGrdCol > end if > set the backgroundColor of line tLine of field "Field" to >tBackGrdCol > end repeat > >Regards > >Peter > >On 25 Mar 2014, at 16:02, Scott Rossi wrote: > >> Did I read/hear at some point that it's now possible to create >>alternating >> row colors in a field using htmlText or styledText? Or was this a dream >> about cheese? >> >> Thanks & Regards, >> >> Scott Rossi >> Creative Director >> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > >_______________________________________________ >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 _______________________________________________ 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
