XP standalone has transparent Answer boxes...

[paulsr]

Greetings:

I've just had my first attempt at building a standalone application ... for Windows XP.

As far as I can tell, the app runs as expected, with one exception.

In a few places I use Answer boxes, which display fine in the development environment. But in the standalone app they are transparent. Which means I can't read them, because the text is black, and my card's background is dark blue.

I confess, I have absolutely no idea how to debug something like this.

Can anyone advise me please...

--paul

[shaosean]

Is it still transparent if you change the background colour or use an image for the background?

[paulsr]

I found the answer here:

http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=12430

Apparently the standalone answer dialog inherits the stack's background color and so it is necessary to do something like:

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set the backgroundColor of card 1 of stack "Answer Dialog" to white

--paul

[Klaus]

... in the standalone app they are transparent.
Which means I can't read them, because the text is black, and my card's background is dark blue.

Blue text on black background = tranparent?

[paulsr]

Yes Klaus, because the background of the card is dark blue... so to me it seemed the answer box had become transparent.

But as I now know, the answer box inherits the card's or stack's background color.

As I mentioned, this was the first time I had built a standalone app, and was surprised it did not act exactly the same as it did in the development environment.

In fact, I'm still surprised, even tho I've fixed the problem.

--paul

[Klaus]

Hi Paul,



Be prepared to see some more differences: standalone <-> IDE


Best

Klaus