Making a Blinking Field

[nfregistrar]

Using FP5 on a PC is there any way to make a field that will blink (flash)when a certain condition is met? I want to tag a customer that has bad credit when he is accessed. I tried a looped script but some things don't work while it is running.

Perhaps you know of another way to get the attention of a data enterer when this condition is met.

[LiveOak]

You've got the right idea, but looping script do have some limitations. As an alternative you can change the whole background color of the layout to say red. This is done by making the background a container in which you change the color.

-bd

[nfregistrar]

I made the background a container field, but I have two problems:

If I click on the background, then I can't select any fields in front of the background unless I click off the background somewhere or go to layout mode and then back to browse mode.

I don't know what to do with the container field to make it change color when a certain criteria is met.

[BobWeaver]

For your first problem, in the background container field's format dialog, un-check the 'allow entry into field' option.

To make the background change color, you will also need to create a global container field called gBackgrounds with two repetitions. Put a white filled rectangle in the first repetition, and a red one in the second repetition.

Then, set your main background field to be a calculation field with a result type of container. The formula will be:

GetRepetition(gBackgrounds,1+(<<Insert logical expression here>>))

You also need to set the graphic format for the background field to expand the graphic.

[nfregistrar]

Thanks for taking the time to give me a detailed explanation.

It works fine.