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Hi,

Is there a way to may the text style color transparent, currently you appear to be limited to a specific color. Is it possible to do this via scripting either?

Thanks.

Yes.
It is easy. ( OpusPro has such great toolkit and features )
Just add the Transparency Effect. Find it under object Properties >>> Effects tab. Voila! Done.

BTW, that Transparency can be applied by using the Slider in the Toolbar.

Oh, another way to get there is to apply a Fade animation/action. Could trigger it OnShow and make it immediate, or can manipulate that many different ways. Scripting not needed.

Thanks Lar,

Looking at doing it through scripting. Will work on it again today and update on what I get.


Thanks

Should have put this request in the Advance section.

I have a Listbox and when an item is clicked, I want the selected text to be deleted, I was going to SetSelectionStyle to transparent, but this script option doesn't appear to be an option.

Alternative is to delete from Array and pull Listbox contents back in again.

Imc,

Ah well, it's here... we'll work it here


I think your choice here can be based on what you want the User experience to be: see a 'blank' line, or see a compressed list.

If you are pursuing the 2nd option, you would not need to do array element deleting. You can simply locate the listbox line or the beginning and ending character indices for that Listbox SELECTION --- and then ReplaceSelectionText() with "". (actually I think the boundaries might be beginning of one line to the beginning of the next if you want to delete the 'carriage return'... you can play with it to leave a blank line or remove that blank line). (see 'tickbox' mention below)

As for the 1st option, you have to deal with two parts of the challenge. Text style for the normal displayed entry, and text style for the item selection.
-- The latter is governed by the Listbox object Properties... Selection Font. Simply customize the Selection Style to apply a Text Colour that matches the Listbox's background colour ( "FFFFFF" for white ), and then do the same for the Background (i.e., highlighting). While in that dialogue, uncheck all the formatting options for Bold, underline, etc.
-- The first part is how to modify the appearance of an entry once selected. Again, I think you identify the 'line' or the SetSelection() and change the style/font colour to match LB background ("FFFFFF" or other). (this governs one entry line when it is later not selected).

BTW, there is some code you can adapt for either of the two optional approaches... search for 'listbox' and 'tickbox'
The scripts identify a Listbox selection and change the leading characters of a line so that it appears as if the User checked/unchecked a checkbox. The principal is the same.

Hey, if you go that route and modify it... please Post back here/elsewhere with your solution. I'd like to see the old scripts streamlined with 'switch' and 'case' commands.

Thanks again Lar as always you have great insight.