Default appearance of disabled items

Question

Hi, i would like to have some informations on visual attributes of disabled items :
--Is it possible to change the default appearance of disabled items?
--How oracle forms manage visual of disabled items?
--Is it possible to change background or foreground color of disabled items?
Thank you very much.
Edited by: Tabit7 on Jul 19, 2011 6:30 AM

Answer 1

This seems a pretty simple thing to test. For example, I created a sample form and in the When-New-Item-Instance trigger I added the following code:
:BLOCK1.ITEM1 := 'TEST';
Set_Item_Property('BLOCK1.ITEM1',BACKGROUND_COLOR,'r255g255b000');  /* YELLOW */
Set_Item_Property('BLOCK1.ITEM1',FOREGROUND_COLOR,'r255g255b255');  /* WHITE */Good so far. Background is Yellow and Forground is White. Then I disabled the item.
Set_Item_Property('BLOCK1.ITEM1',ENABLED, PROPERTY_FALSE);and the text Forground color changed to light black or dark grey. So to answer your questions:
--Is it possible to change the default appearance of disabled items?Yes - but, not all attributes of the disabled item can be modified.
--How oracle forms manage visual of disabled items?The basic appearance of the item doesn't change except for the forground color.
--Is it possible to change background or foreground color of disabled items?Background color = YES, Forground color = NO.
If there are other attributes you want to change, Font Style, etc, I suggest you try to set the property and see what happens. As it turns out, you can also change the FONT_SYTLE of a disabled item as well. ; )
Hope this helps,
Craig B-)
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