changing colors of an element

[Ron]

I named all the elements on my main form and hardcoded the colors.
This works great.
Now I want to go a little further and let a method retrieve the colorcodes from some
field. This way I could change the collorsettings even faster.
But...It does not work.

forms.main.elements.topbar.bgcolor = '#000000' //works

globals.topbar = forms.main.topbarfield //where topbarfield contains: '#000000'
forms.main.elements.topbar.bgcolor = globals.topbar //does not work

Maybe it's the quotes?
If so, how will the code look like with quotes included (colorcode in field will then be without codes).

Thanks,
Ron

[mboegem]

Hi Ron,

I've done a simular job in our application and it works just fine.
Be sure your global variable has a value like: #22a000

[Jan Aleman]

I named all the elements on my main form and hardcoded the colors.
This works great.
Now I want to go a little further and let a method retrieve the colorcodes from some
field. This way I could change the collorsettings even faster.
But...It does not work.

forms.main.elements.topbar.bgcolor = '#000000' //works

globals.topbar = forms.main.topbarfield //where topbarfield contains: '#000000'
forms.main.elements.topbar.bgcolor = globals.topbar //does not work

so what is topbarfield? a form variable that contains a string? or is it a field that you want to retrieve the color from? Have you considered setting a breakpoint and checking while you step what is going on?