Studio 8 - changing the text colour on a report

[Terence Young]

HI,

The 'calculate xxx as..' works in reversible blocks; but the 'Do xxxx.$assign()' does not always.

terry


Terence J. Young, DC

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That raises the interesting question that I had always thought :

Calculate as

Was the exact same thing as

Do xxxx.$assign()

Does anyone know definitively if there is any difference ?


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> On Oct 3, 2020, at 11:06 AM, <malkishtini at gmail.com> <malkishtini at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Oops.I meant to say
> Do
> $root.$ireports.rbusinesslabelsfx.$objs.OBJECTNAME.$textcolor.$assign(kRed)
>
> HTH,
> Mayada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: malkishtini at gmail.com [mailto:malkishtini at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2020 11:03 AM
> To: 'OmnisDev List - English'
> Subject: RE: Studio 8 - changing the text colour on a report
>
> Hi Randy,
>
> One more thing to add here, I'm not sure if $assign works with " calculate
> as", so I would change the line of code to
>
> Do
> $root.$ireports.rbusinesslabelsfx.$objs.OBJECTNAME.$textcolor.$assign(kTrue)
>
> Regards,
> Mayada
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: omnisdev-en [mailto:omnisdev-en-bounces at lists.omnis-dev.com] On Behalf
> Of Jim Pistrang
> Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2020 10:56 AM
> To: Omnis List Mail
> Subject: Re: Studio 8 - changing the text colour on a report
>
> Hi Randy,
>
> I think the problem is that $textcolor is not a property of a report, it is
> a property of objects in the report class.
>
> You need the name of the object here:
>  $root.$ireports.rbusinesslabelsfx.$objs.OBJECTNAME.$textcolor.$assign
>
> Jim
>
>
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I would like to have a colour picker when a user selects a report to
>> print but to start I just want to assign a colour to a report.  My piece
>> of notation doesn't work below:
>>
>>      Calculate $root.$ireports.rbusinesslabelsfx.$objs.$textcolor.$assign
> as kRed
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Randy Wilson
>> Plum Hollow Software Inc.
>> plum_hollow at cogeco.ca
>> 905-563-6516
>>
>>
>>
>>
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