1. Alternating colors in List?
- Posted by 1evan at sbcglobal.net
Jun 06, 2003
Is it possible to have the background of alternating lines in a list be
alternating colors? This would make reading the contents easier.
Or even have the lines of text be in alternating colors.
2. Re: Alternating colors in List?
----- Original Message -----
From: <1evan at sbcglobal.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Alternating colors in List?
>
>
> Is it possible to have the background of alternating lines in a list be
> alternating colors? This would make reading the contents easier.
> Or even have the lines of text be in alternating colors.
>
The default list box that comes with Windows does not support this. To get
this effect you have to have an 'owner-drawn' control. This means that your
application is responsible for look of the control WIndows sends your
application messages when the control or parts of it need redrawing.
This is not a trival thing to do. One day I'll see what can be done to make
it easier for win32lib applications.
--
Derek.
3. Re: Alternating colors in List?
- Posted by 1evan at sbcglobal.net
Jun 07, 2003
Thanks, I thought that was the case, but was hoping somebody had found
an easier way.
Derek Parnell wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <1evan at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Subject: Alternating colors in List?
>
>
>>Is it possible to have the background of alternating lines in a list be
>>alternating colors? This would make reading the contents easier.
>>Or even have the lines of text be in alternating colors.
>>
>
> The default list box that comes with Windows does not support this. To get
> this effect you have to have an 'owner-drawn' control. This means that your
> application is responsible for look of the control WIndows sends your
> application messages when the control or parts of it need redrawing.
>
> This is not a trival thing to do. One day I'll see what can be done to make
> it easier for win32lib applications.
> --
> Derek.
>
>
>
> TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE!
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>
4. Re: Alternating colors in List?
- Posted by 1evan at sbcglobal.net
Jun 07, 2003
Thanks, I'll check it out.
Jonas Temple wrote:
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>
> As Derek mentioned, this can't currently be done with listview controls
> but as a suggestion check out Phil Russel's EuGrid control. He's got a
> demo showing lines in the control with different colors.
>
> Jonas
> 1evan at sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
>>
>>Is it possible to have the background of alternating lines in a list be
>>alternating colors? This would make reading the contents easier.
>>Or even have the lines of text be in alternating colors.
>>
>>
>
>
> TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE!
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5. Re: Alternating colors in List?
- Posted by irvm at ellijay.com
Jun 07, 2003
On Saturday 07 June 2003 06:47 am, you wrote:
>
>
> Thanks, I thought that was the case, but was hoping somebody had found
> an easier way.
There is, but it involves using Linux and GTK:
-- make it a 'green bar' list;
for row = 1 to 100 by 2 do
set_row_background(list,row,#CCFFCC)
end for
Sorry about Windows :)
Irv
6. Re: Alternating colors in List?
On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 03:17:43PM -0400, irvm at ellijay.com wrote:
>
>
> On Saturday 07 June 2003 06:47 am, you wrote:
> >
> >
> > Thanks, I thought that was the case, but was hoping somebody had found
> > an easier way.
>
> There is, but it involves using Linux and GTK:
> -- make it a 'green bar' list;
> for row = 1 to 100 by 2 do
> set_row_background(list,row,#CCFFCC)
> end for
>
> Sorry about Windows :)
>
> Irv
>
Of course, if you did GTK2 programming under Windows, that'd still work,
but you'd be locked into using GTK widgets.
(Due to bugs, GTK1 under Windows is unlikely to support this.)
As expected, there'd be more overhead to doing things this way.
jbrown
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