Forms: can button colors be changed ?

[Jan Gelbrich]

Hello,

Just a layout question ... or are button items always gray ?
Setting colors does not apply.

TIA, Jan

[Jeff]

Unless they're iconic, it seems so.


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[Daniel Morgan]

Jan Gelbrich wrote:
Hello,Just a layout question ... or are button items always gray ?Setting colors does not apply.TIA, Jan
No. Unless you do it in the Windows Control Panel and then it affects
every button in
every application.

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[shay]

"Jan Gelbrich" <j_gelbrich@westfalen-blatt.de> wrote in message news:<bno8ag$12qbbp$1@ID-152732.news.uni-berlin.de>... Hello, Just a layout question ... or are button items always gray ? Setting colors does not apply. TIA, Jan

If you run your Forms in the Web architecture you can change the color
of buttons. On c/s it is decided by the windows display settings.

[Jan Gelbrich]

"shay" <gevatron@yahoo.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:92653779.0310301504.649ba340@posting.google.com... "Jan Gelbrich" <j_gelbrich@westfalen-blatt.de> wrote in message
news:<bno8ag$12qbbp$1@ID-152732.news.uni-berlin.de>... Hello, Just a layout question ... or are button items always gray ? Setting colors does not apply. TIA, Jan If you run your Forms in the Web architecture you can change the color of buttons. On c/s it is decided by the windows display settings.

OK, thank You all for confirmation.
I use C/S config.

Jan

[Jan Gelbrich]

"Jan Gelbrich" <j_gelbrich@westfalen-blatt.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:bno8ag$12qbbp$1@ID-152732.news.uni-berlin.de... Hello, Just a layout question ... or are button items always gray ? Setting colors does not apply. TIA, Jan

That was some time ago ... meanwhile
I played around a little and found this
by setting the following properties of a button:

symbol Form -> Yes (default is No)
"No" shows the button text and hide the colors, "Yes" does the opposite:
colors but no text on the button.
So one may want to use the prompt instead.

Then set foreground and background colors as needed,
eventually by Set_Item_Property ( ).

Greetings, Jan

[Aaron V]

Hey Jan,

I've tried to do this before myself, to no avail. What version of Forms are
you running, because I don't have a property for "symbol Form"? What
property category is this in?
Then set foreground and background colors as needed, eventually by Set_Item_Property ( ).
And can you set the colors at design time? BTW I'm using 6i.

Thanks

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"Jan Gelbrich" <j_gelbrich@westfalen-blatt.de> wrote in message
news:bq74rj$1tj8je$1@ID-152732.news.uni-berlin.de... "Jan Gelbrich" <j_gelbrich@westfalen-blatt.de> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:bno8ag$12qbbp$1@ID-152732.news.uni-berlin.de... Hello, Just a layout question ... or are button items always gray ? Setting colors does not apply. TIA, Jan That was some time ago ... meanwhile I played around a little and found this by setting the following properties of a button: symbol Form -> Yes (default is No) "No" shows the button text and hide the colors, "Yes" does the opposite: colors but no text on the button. So one may want to use the prompt instead. Then set foreground and background colors as needed, eventually by Set_Item_Property ( ). Greetings, Jan