Datagrid Line Color anomaly?

[dunbarx]

I was dealing with another thread, and noticed this when trying to set the color of a particular line in a datagrid.

Make a new datagrid and load several lines of data. In a button script:

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on mouseUp
   set the dgProp["hilite color"] of grp 1 to "red"
   if the optionKey is down then set the dgHilitedLines of grp 1 to "2,4"
    else set the dgHilitedLines of grp 1 to "3"   
end mouseUp

Click on the button a few times, with and without the optionKey, and all is well. But then if you click on a blank part of the card, the DG hilite changes to gray. This will persist back at the button until you do something directly to the DG, perhaps click on a line, or something external, like choose the edit tool, and then choose the browse tool again.

Can anyone else see this? Does anyone care? OS 10.6 on a PPC.

Craig Newman

[Klaus]

Hi Craig,

this is correct behavior!

It is the "unfocused" look of a datagrid and you maybe can also change that color,
not sure, need to check the datagrid docs again

Found it:
########################################################################
dimmed hilite color
- Color that highlighted lines will be when control is not focused.
Prefix property name with "effective" to get the color being used when this property is set to empty.
#######################################################################
...
set the dgProps["dimmed hilite color"] of grp "xyz" to 1,200,240
...

Best

Klaus

[dunbarx]

Klaus.

Thanks. I had forgotten about the focus of the DG. This can be permanently set, but has to be managed.

Craig