Re: How to get rid of background color of fields (forms 3.0)

badri_at_elm.circa.ufl.edu (Badrish Davanagere) writes:

>How do I get rid of the highlighted background for fields
>defined in Forms 3.0.? I have a forms which has closely packed fields
>in consecutive lines. The highlighted fields sort of merge to result
>in an ugly picture. I would like the fields looking like the rest of
>the screen (i.e no highlight).

The answer to this is going to be somewhat system and terminal dependent. What works for me, on an NCR 3430, SVR4, vt220 emulation mode with either Procomm Plus or LANtastic for TCO/IP [AKA Wollong Pathways] is:

display_field('block.field_name','bold');

To change it back, use 'normal'.

Note that the ':' on the variable name is NOT used in this case.

This changes the field to be high intensity rather than regular intensity, but at least it isn't reverse video anymore. You also can't easily see the length of a field anymore.

Depending on what you're using, you may also be able to use other attributes, see the docs for Oracle Terminal for possibilities. By playing around with the default screen colors in the emulators, I can get around five different color combinations, some of which are too similar to others to be useful. (Such as orange/white vs red/white.)

I oftten put the display_field statements for a block in a procedure which gets invoked in several triggers: key-startup, on-new-record, pre-record, post-query, etc.

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Michael Nolan, Sysop for the DBMS RoundTable on GEnie
nolan_at_notes.tssi.com, dbms_at_genie.geis.com
(posted from nolan_at_helios.unl.edu)