Setting prompt colour and weight

Question

Hi guys,
Im having an issue I would very much appreciate your help with. I have the code below which I want to change the prompt font to bold and red on a post query trigger hence have coded the code below. However it doesnt seem to be setting the prompt to bold or red. Am I doing something stupid?
     set_item_property('block_name.item_name,prompt_foreground_color,'red');
     set_item_property('block_name.item_name,prompt_font_weight,'BOLD');
Thanks.

Answer 1

it isnt a multi-line layout...Then you should use the Set_Item_Property() built-in.
I tried the code below but got numeric or value error, no data found
set_item_instance_property('block.item_name,visual_attribute,'PROMPT') You got this error because you didn't include the record_number of the item to modify. Your code should have been:
set_item_instance_property('block.item_name,CURRENT_RECORD,visual_attribute,'PROMPT')But again, as you are not using a Tabular layout, you don't need to use the Set_Item_Instance_Property().
Taking a closer look at Visual Attribute (VA) objects, you cannot set the attributes of the Prompt using a VA. Sorry to mislead you on this. :8}
HamidHelal is right, to set a color you have to use the RGB values. However,
Prompt_Font_Weight doesn't work...is not accurate. To set the Font Weight you have to use one of the predefined weight variables. They are: FONT_MEDIUM, FONT_ULTRALIGHT, FONT_EXTRALIGHT, FONT_LIGHT, FONT_DEMILIGHT, FONT_DEMIBOLD, FONT_BOLD, FONT_EXTRABOLD, FONT_ULTRABOLD. Search the Forms help on Font Weight Property for more information.
Try this code:
-- Set Bold
set_item_property('block_name.item_name,prompt_font_weight,FONT_BOLD);
-- Set back to normal.
set_item_property('block_name.item_name,prompt_font_weight,FONT_NORMAL);Craig...