BrushStyle (Property)

The Property StyleBackground allows to know and modify the display style of the Background of the cells of tables and/or hierarchical tables.. This property is effective only if the row, the column or the cell is using a background color specified by BackgroundColor. This property can be used to highlight a specific cell in the table.

Example: The "Monday" cell is colored in light green with the "Tube" style.

Example

// Color the DAY cell of the current row
COL_Day[1].Background colour = LightGreen
COL_Day[1].StyleBackground = styleTube

Syntax

Finding out the style of the background color Hide the details

<Background style> = <Element to use>.BrushStyle

<Background style>: Integer constant

Background style currently used:
styleDefault Default value. Solid colors.
styleGradient Simple gradient (to the bottom).
styleDiagonalCrossHatch Hatches such as xxxxx
styleCrossHatch Hatches such as +++++
styleRightDiagonalHatch Hatches such as \\\\\\
styleLeftDiagonalHatch Hatches such as //////
styleHorizontalHatch Hatches such as ------
styleVerticalHatch Hatching such as |||||
styleTube 2 gradients of the main color, used to get a tube effect.

<Element to use>: Character string (with or without quotes)

Identifies the cell, row or column from a Table or TreeView Table control that must be managed.

Modifying the style of the background color Hide the details

<Element to use>.BrushStyle = <New style>

<Element to use>: Character string (with or without quotes)

Identifies the cell, row or column from a Table or TreeView Table control that must be managed.

<New style>: Integer constant

Background style to use:
styleDefault Solid colors. This option is used by default when creating a table.
styleGradient Simple gradient (to the bottom).
styleDiagonalCrossHatch Hatches such as xxxxx
styleCrossHatch Hatches such as +++++
styleRightDiagonalHatch Hatches such as \\\\\\
styleLeftDiagonalHatch Hatches such as //////
styleHorizontalHatch Hatches such as ------
styleVerticalHatch Hatching such as |||||
styleTube 2 gradients of the main color, used to get a tube effect.

Remarks

Operation of the Property BrushStyle

The effect of changing the Property BrushStyle is visible on a cell, row or column only if the color of this cell, row or column has been defined with Property BackgroundColor.

Using the hatches: The color of hatches is defined by Color. By default, the color of hatches corresponds to the color of the text. To use a different color for the text, call gPen.

Example:

TABLE_SansNom1.Color = Black
TABLE_SansNom1.ColourBackground = LightYellow
FOR I = 1 TO 10
TableAddLine(MySelf)
TABLE_SansName1[I].StyleBottom = styleLeftDiagonalHatch
TABLE_NoName1.COL_NoName1[I] = gPen(LightRed) + "Row " + I
END

Limit

The Property BrushStyle is only available on the cells, rows and columns of the Table and Hierarchy Table fields.

Related Examples:

Unit examples (WINDEV): Style for displaying the table cells

[ + ] Modifying the display style of table cells.
The ..BrushStyle property is used to hatch the cells or to create a color gradient with "tube" effect.