SET COLOR OF

Purpose

Change the color of a predefined display area

Syntax

SET COLOR OF <display area> TO [<color>]

SET COLOR OF SCHEME <expN> TO [<color> | SCHEME <expN>]

SET COLOR SET TO [<expN>]

See Also

@...FILL, @...GET, @...SAY, @...TO, CLEAR, ISCOLOR(), RESTORE COLOR, SAVE COLOR, SET COLOR, SET DISPLAY, SETCOLOR()

Description

The SET COLOR OF <display area> TO <color> command controls predefined screen area groupings so that you can change color attributes of individual screen areas independent of one another. The following display areas are predefined.

Display Area	Description
ALERT	All error message alert boxes
BOX	All boxes
BROWSE	BROWSE work surface
BROWSEFRAME	BROWSE frames
DIALOG	Dialog boxes
DIALOG FRAME	Frames around dialog boxes
FIELDS	Normal display area like <standard>
GETFOCUS	Current get field
HELP	Message line
HIGHLIGHT	Highlighted menu options
INFORMATION	Status bar, clock, etc
MENUS	Pulldown, pop-up menus
MESSAGES	System message bar
NORMAL	Normal screen output
SHADOWS	Bottom and right edge of dialog boxes
TITLES	Dialog box titles, DBEDIT() column titles, etc.

The SET COLOR OF SCHEME and SET COLOR SET commands have been added for syntax compatibility with FoxPro.

Example

// set menus to white
set color of menu to W
// use memory variables
foreground = "N"
background = "GR"
set color to (foreground + "/" + background)

Products

Recital