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From: Flemming Gram Christensen <gram@mjolner.dk>
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Subject: Re: StaticText color??
Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 13:07:00 +0100
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Sascha Kimmel (tricos Mediaservice) wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I wish you a happy new year 2000!
> I'm proud to be the first one in the new year to ask a question about BETA
> ;-)
Do not forget that you are the first in this millenium!

About text color. 
It can not be done in guienv as is but I'm working on a 
solution that will be available in a few days.

Regard
Flemming

> 
> My question is: how can I change the COLOR of a statictext?
> I use the following (slightly adapted) code from ~demo/statictext.bet:
> 
> helloWorld: @staticText
>           (# open::
>                (# aTextStyle: ^textStyle;
>                do
>                         (0xffff,0xffff,0xffff)->backgroundColor;
>                       (0x0000,0x0000,0xffff)->Color;
>                         &textStyle[] -> aTextStyle[];
>                   'Arial Black' -> aTextStyle.name;
>                   24 -> aTextStyle.size;
>                   textFaces.bold -> aTextStyle.face;
>                   aTextStyle[] -> style;
> 
>                   'Hello, World!' -> label;
> 
>                   fitToContents;
>                #);
>           #);
> 
> Well, the compiler does not complain about assigning a value to COLOR, but
> of course it does not work.
> Because I want to display the staticText on a black background it is not
> quite acceptable the the text itself is black also!
> 
> Does anyone know how to set the color of a staticText?
> 
> Regards,
> Sascha Kimmel

-- 
/Flemming Gram Christensen

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