Re: Colored fields on the form

In article <3sr3hc$iom_at_cs3.brookes.ac.uk>, p0070621_at_brookes.ac.uk says...
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>In article <3sp2dv$6u2_at_hammer.msfc.nasa.gov>, Robert Goodwin says...
>>If I'm not mistaken, altering the field attributes will change the field
>>colors for the entire column in a multirow block. As I understand it, you
>>want to change the color of a single field on a single row, depending on the
>>value. To my knowledge, there's no way to do this. Please post if you do
>>find a way.
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>It is possible under forms 3.0. I don't know about forms 4. As others have
>mentioned, use
>DISPLAY_FIELD('block.field', BOLD);
>or whatever other attributes are defined in the resource file.

This procedure should do what you want, this takes a defined visual attribute as its argument:

• Mark selected record.

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  PROCEDURE MarkRecord(attrib VARCHAR2) IS item_name VARCHAR2(20); cur_item VARCHAR2(30); BEGIN
  • Color all items in the current row. item_name := Get_Block_Property(:system.trigger_block, FIRST_ITEM); WHILE item_name IS NOT NULL LOOP cur_item := :system.trigger_block || '.' || item_name; Display_Item(cur_item, attrib); item_name := Get_Item_Property(cur_item, NEXTITEM); END LOOP; END;

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