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Help / WLanguage / WLanguage properties / Various properties
  • Font variable
  • Window icon bar color
  • Color of an Edit control
  • Text color in a Static Text control
  • Text color of a Button control
  • Text color of a Radio Button or Check Box control
  • Text color of a List Box or Combo Box control
  • Color of a TreeView control
  • Text color of a cell, row or column in a Table control
  • Color of a ListView control
  • Color of an Image control
  • Color of the tabs in a Tab control
  • Color of a Sidebar control
  • Color of a Bar Code control
  • Limitations
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Stored procedures
The Color property gets or sets the font color of:
  • a variable of type Font.
  • text displayed in a Static or Calculated control of a report.
  • text displayed in a window control.
  • text displayed in a page control.
  • text in a menu option.
The effects of the Color property depend on the type of control (for more details, see "Remarks").
Note: By default, the color of a Font variable is black.
Example
// The text color is modified according to the displayed value
IF EDT_Total>15000 THEN
EDT_Total.Color = LightRed
END
WINDEVUser code (UMC)
// Définir les caractéristiques d'une variable de type Police
Police1 is Font
Police1.Name = "Arial"
Police1.Color = LightYellow
Police1.Size = 14
Police1.SizeUnit = unitPoint
Police1.Orientation = 45
// Appliquer la police au champ "MonChamp"
MyControl.Police = Police1
Syntax

Getting the text color Hide the details

<Result> = <Element used>.Color
<Result>: Integer or constant
Color of the specified element. This color can correspond to:
<Element used>: Control name or Font variable
Name of the element for which you want to get the text color. This element can correspond to:
  • name of a control in a window or page.
  • name of a control in a report.
  • name of a variable of type Font.

Changing the text color Hide the details

<Element used>.Color = <New color>
<Element used>: Control name or Font variable
Name of the element for which you want to change the text color. This element can correspond to:
  • name of a control in a window or page.
  • name of a control in a report.
  • name of a variable of type Font.
<New color>: Integer or constant
New color of the specified element. This color can correspond to:
Remarks

Font variable

A font can be created from a Font variable.
To define the font characteristics, use:
This font can be used:
Assigning a font to a control:
  • if the Font variable has no specific color, the color of the text displayed in the control is kept.
  • if the Font variable has a specific color, this color is applied to the text displayed in the control.
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Window icon bar color

  • If the window is an "MDI parent" window, the Color property gets and sets the icon bar color.
  • The Color property is ignored if the window is not an "MDI parent" window.

Color of an Edit control

The Color property can be used to identify and modify the color of text entered.
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Text color in a Static Text control

The Color property lets you identify and modify the text color of a Static Text control.
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Text color of a Button control

The Color property lets you identify and modify the color of the text in a Button field.
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Text color of a Radio Button or Check Box control

The Color property can be used to identify and modify the text color of all Radio Button control and Check Box control options.
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Text color of a List Box or Combo Box control

The Color property gets and sets the text color of all the options of a List Box control.
WINDEV To get or change the text color of an option in a List Box control, specify the desired option using the following syntax: ListName[RowNum].
For example, the following code applies a green color to the text of the second row of the List Box control:
LIST_List1[2].Color = LightGreen

Attention: For lines in a List Box control, the new color is retained only for visible lines..
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Color of a TreeView control

The Color property gets and sets the color of all the labels displayed in a TreeView control.
To get or change the text color of an option in the TreeView control, specify the desired option using one of the following syntaxes:
  • TreeViewName[RowNum]
  • TreeViewName[<Element path>] where Element path is a character string in the following format:
    "<Root name>" + TAB + ["<Name of 1st node>" + TAB +...
    ["<Name of 2nd node>" + TAB + [...]]]"<Leaf name>"
    Examples:
TREE_TreeView2[2].Color = LightGreen // Colors the second row green
TREE_MyTreeView["Recipe" + TAB + "Dessert"].Color = LightRed
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Text color of a cell, row or column in a Table control

  • To get or change the text color of a cell in a Table control, specify the desired cell using the following syntax: TableName[RowNum][ColumnNum].
    For example, the following code changes the text color in the cell on row 1, column 2:
    TABLE_Table1[1][2].Color = DarkBlue
  • To get or change the text color of a row in a Table control, specify the desired row using the following syntax: TableName[RowNum].
  • To get or change the text color of a column in a Table control, simply use the Color property with the column name.
Caution: To preserve text color when selecting a line in a Table based on a data file field, you need to use the Color property in the "Select table line" event..
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Color of a ListView control

The Color property gets and sets the color of all the labels displayed in a ListView control.
To get or change the text color of an option in the ListView control, specify the desired option using the following syntax: ListViewName[RowNum].
For example, the following code applies a green color to the text of the second row of the ListView control:
LSI_ListeImage1[2].Color = LightGreen

Attention: For List Box control lines, the new color is retained only for visible lines.
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Color of an Image control

The Color property gets and sets the background color of an Image control.
WINDEVJavaUser code (UMC)

Color of the tabs in a Tab control

When used on a Tab control, the Color property allows you to get and change the background color of the tabs.
When used on a tab, the Color property allows you to get and change the text color of the tabs.
For example:
// Changes the text color of tab 1
TAB_MyTab[1].Color = LightRed
WINDEVUser code (UMC)

Color of a Sidebar control

The Color property gets and sets the background color of the sidebar panes.
WINDEVUser code (UMC)

Color of a Bar Code control

The Color property gets and sets the color used to draw the bar code.

Limitations

WINDEV Limitations on report controls
The Color property has no effect on:
  • Image controls.
  • Bar Code controls.
  • RTF controls.
  • Check Box controls.
  • Chart controls.
  • Signature controls.
  • reports.
  • report blocks.
WINDEV Limitations on controls in WINDEV windows
The Color property has no effect on the following controls:
  • HTML controls,
  • Web Camera controls,
  • supercontrols,
  • Slider controls.
Java The Color property can only be used with the following elements:
  • Button control.
  • Static Text control.
  • Edit control.
  • Image control.
  • Check Box control.
  • Radio Button control.
  • List Box control.
  • Combo Box control.
  • TreeView control.
  • Tab control.
  • Window.
  • Table control.
  • Table column.
Minimum version required
  • Version 9
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