Highlighting row problem

[aliquis]

For some time now I've been using a tip from Ray Cologon to highlight rows in list view using a web viewer. Now I find that when using the trial version of FMP11 this no longer works. I've attached Ray C's original file here and find that it's OK in FMP10, but not in FMP11. Any thoughts anyone?

RowHighlightv8.5.zip

[Lee Smith]

The file requires Zippscript Plugin. Check his site for newer versions.

[bruceR]

That was always a clunky technique and it is outmoded and dependent on a plugin that was pulled off the market in a legal dispute. Use onRecordLoad script trigger instead.

[aliquis]

Thanks both.

I preferred the method that did it without a script, as that's bit clunky too, but have gone back to it at least for the time being.

[Jeep Watson]

I think you might be missing Bruce's point. It's now very quick and efficient to do this with conditional formatting and a 2 line script. Not clunky at all.

Try this...

RowHighlight.fp7.zip

[aliquis]

Thanks, but no - I wasn't missing the point. This is exactly the script method that I went back to. On a small file it's very zippy, but for some reason on the big file that I use it's clunky. By which I mean that there's a delay between the small black bar on the right moving to the active record and the highlighting format getting there. I think it's something to do with the screen rendering. On a clone of the file with a few empty records the delay is smaller, but it's still there. But I'm still curious to know what the difference is between FMP10 and FMP11 such that the old method worked on one but not the other.

Edited March 29, 2010 by Guest

[Daniel Farnan]

At a guess, given that ZippScript was used, it comes down to the type of plugin - FM v11 no longer supports the classic plugin interface.