Field highlight color

[EllenG]

Don't know exactly where to put this question.

I am converting an application from FMP6 to FMP10. I have been doing the development on the MAC, but it will be cross-platform.

I just put it on the PC to make sure it is working and am finding some problems (what seems to work really well on the MAC does not work as well on the PC, such as navigation between tabs and layouts; on the MAC they run very clean, on the PC a lot of flickering and jumping.) So, I am now re-writing scripts to run smoother on the PC.

If anyone has some insight into that, I would appreciate your thoughts; but the question I have is on another matter.

In FMP10, it automatically highlights the active field. I just noticed that the color for the highlighted field is different on the PC (highlight is blue) then on the MAC (pale yellow). Is there a way to make that consistent??

[mr_vodka]

You can reduce some of the flashing by playing with the layout object stack orders. I tend to put any gfx, outlines, etc all the way in the back so they load first. Then I leave my summary and calc field towards the front as they take time to load anyway.

[EllenG]

I am still looking for assistance on the highlighted field color.

On my application, when running on the PC, the background color on a selected field turns a very dark blue or purple (this is on fields where Select entire contents is checked for Behavior.) The text color on the field is black, so when the field is highlighted, you cannot read the text.

I have a copy of another application that was created in FMP9. When the selected field is highlighted, the field background changes to a dark blue just like mine, but the text color displays in white, so it can be seen. There is no special formatting or conditionals on the field that I can see on those fields.

The developer tells me that he is not doing anything like conditionals on his fields.

Is this a "bug" in FMP10??? Does anyone have a solution (other then un-checking the Select Entire Contents option?

This is only a problem on the PC; it looks fine on the MAC!! (But most of my clients use PC...LOL)

PLEASE.... Let me know if this is something I can fix.

Thanks.

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I don't know about Windows, but on a Mac the highlight color is set in System Preference for all applications alike.

BTW, it's Mac, not MAC .

[EllenG]

I think on the MAC, it uses the System Preferences. However, on the PC, I don't think there is a setting for that (looked in all the Screen Appearance options). In any case, if it was a screen properties function, then both runtime applications would use the same settings. On the same PC, both my application and the other (both in runtime) show the same highlight color on the selected field, but on mine, the text color stays black and on the other, the text color turns white. We both use a white fill and black text for the data entry fields, so I am not able to understand why the difference. The only thing I know for sure is that mine is FMP10 and the other was created with FMP9.

Really stumped...but need to get this fixed!!

I am going to see if I can find any sample FMP10 runtime applications that I can download and see if they act the same as mine!