>I have a form which has about 30 text boxes which I want to color code. So for the "forecolor" property I want to simply say something like "f_color(this.value)" instead of defining a specific color. the function f_color would do some calculation and would return a color such as red.
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>so thisform.text1.ForeColor= f_color(this.value) works well but i am getting a type error if the color returned is "50,50,50". if i do a VAL on the color as in thisform.text1.ForeColor= val(f_color(this.value)), it works but does not return the color i want. how, and in what format, do i return the correct color?
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>thanks,
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>Nancy
thisform.text1.ForeColor = eval('rgb('+fcolor(this.value)+')')
In your fcolor code you make to always return a numeric or rgb() series. It'd be easier. If you don't do that this would be longer but safer way :
lcColor = fcolor(this.Value)
lnColor = eval(iif(occurs(',',lcColor)=2,'rgb(','')+;
lcColor+;
iif(occurs(',',lcColor)=2,')',''))
thisform.text1.ForeColor = lnColorCetin
