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Par2: Greenbar a browse
1999-12-21 -- Russ Eggen
 
Go the list box extensions, select the Class tab.  Check the derived box.  Press 
the enabled "New class methods" button.  Click insert and type the name of your
method.  Can be any name, and since you are doing a greenbar effect, lets call it
"GreenBar".  The prototype is ().  Click on the Code embed and use code similar to
the following (this colors only one column, but I left the BEGIN/END pair in so you 
can use it for more columns.  Also, this assumes a customer list):
 
LOOP X# = 1 TO Records(SELF.Q)            !Loop through entire queue
  GET(SELF.Q,X#)                          !Read an entry
  Assert(~ ErrorCode())                   !Should be no errors
  EXECUTE (X# % 2) + 1                    !Execute based on modulus math (1 or 2)
    BEGIN                                 !If odd numbered line, change the colors
      SELF.Q.CUS:CompanyName_NormalBG = COLOR:Silver
      !other columns here
    END
    BEGIN                                 !If even line, don't change the colors
      SELF.Q.CUS:CompanyName_NormalBG = COLOR:None
      !other columns here
    END
  END
  PUT(SELF.Q)                             !Write back to queue
  Assert(~ ErrorCode())                   !Should not be any errors, so check for one
END

Jason Austin adds:
Hey Russell, that seems a lot of work for a lazy programmer - why not let the existing
templates do the work for you without embeds ?   (Seem to recall someone telling me
that in a class somewhere ) 
In the list box formatter 
  - check the color box for the fields to be conditionally changed. 
  - on the appearance tab set one of the colors wanted 
Go to Extensions/Color.  There you will see the fields that had the color box checked. 
Select each of those fields and 
    - set the condition as   POINTER(QUEUE:BROWSE:1) % 2 = 0 
   - set the color to the second color wanted. 

That's all. 

Then in the embed Control Events/Browse:1/NewSelection add one line of code:
 
BRW1.GreenBar  !or whatever the name of the object is - renamed on the Class tab.
 
One more event: Control Events/Browse:1/ScrollDrag
 
POST(EVENT:NewSelection,?Browse:1)              !Make sure scroll drag fires GreenBar
 
This code works  with page loaded and file loaded list boxes and you have just written a
new method within the IDE.  The templates will take care of the rest of the OOP
structures.
 
Screams for a template, doesn't it?


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