text formatting drop down menus

[rome33]

Hi

I would like different words in a drop down menu to be different colors. I tried to do this with an autocalculation with the field = TextColor("Low";RGB(255;0;0)) also I tried substitute but neither works. I guess I am doing it wrong. Is there a way to do this?

thanks!

[Lee Smith]

you would need to hard code the List items and the color into your calculation.

the enclosed sample shows how to do this using the auto enter calculation.

Ch_Color_VL_Item.fp7.zip

[rome33]

thanks Lee!

Is there a way to do this with the field background of the drop down menu too? i didn't see any functions to do this : but i saw that in some old versions of filemaker people put a field behind a field to do this. that seems like a workaround that would work only for one view and wouldn't translate if people were looking at it in table view.

I wish there was a FieldColor function...

[Lee Smith]

Actually, changing the background was the predecessor to this new feature.

Essentially you use one container field with enough repetitions to hold a block of color for each color you want. Than you would set up a calculation field behind the text field, and have it result in a container based on a case statement similar to the one I attached.

There are a bunch of examples here attached to different questions. Do a search for [color:blue]change background calculation and see what that turns up. If you have no luck, post back and I'll either locate one for you, or post another sample.

Lee

[Lee Smith]

Here is a sample file I posted awhile back, that shows what I just tried to say. :

click here

Lee