Roland, The best I can come up with is using the openField and closeField messages to set the colour of the line within the field, instead of setting the background colour of the field, this gives you a little more control over the position of the ‘highlighted' area. Something like this in a behaviour button then applied to the required fields:
on openField set the hilitecolor of me to Blue set the backgroundcolor of line 1 of me to the hilitecolor of me set the padding of line 1 of me to 4 set the textColor of me to "255,255,255" select the text of me end openField on exitField set the backgroundcolor of line 1 of me to "255,255,255" set the textColor of me to "0,0,0" end exitField Sorry I can’t test for the disappearing text because I’m on Mac. As Jacque suggested, I also expected the focusIn and focusOut messages would be helpful, but it seems they are not triggered buy opening or closing an unlocked field (see comment in the dictionary). This lesson explains a little more so maybe helpful: http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/58674-how-do-i-style-paragraphs-in-a-field-in-livecode-5-5 Paul _______________________________________________ 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
