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Coloring condition fields in a subfile


Sai Teja
04.03.2006
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I've found a better way to work with coloring condition field. I make the SFL field one character longer than normal, and move a hex attribute for the required color into the first position of the field. Now, this is obviously not feasible with numeric fields but it works very well for c

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haracter fields and it removes the need to track the color on the field (indicators are always reset when reading 'C' to a subfile.) If you really need to use this technique with a numeric field, make the SFL field character and then use the API to edit the field into a 'numeric' format.

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