BackColor property for PowerScript controls
Controls
Windows and most controls
Description
The BackColor property defines the color to be used for the
background of an object. When you are defining the background color
in a painter, some of the choices take their values from the current
Windows color scheme or from custom colors. To add your own colors
to the color drop-down list, select Design>Custom Colors
before displaying the Properties view. You can also choose Transparent.
Usage
In a painter
To set the background color for a window, MonthCalendar
control, or graph:
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Select a color from the BackColor drop-down
list on the General page in the window’s or graph’s
Properties view.
To set the background color for other controls:
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Select a color from the BackColor drop-down
list on the Font tab page in the control’s Properties view.
To set the background color for text objects in
graphs:
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Select the desired text object in the Text
Object list box on the Text tab page of the graph control’s
Properties view. -
Select a color from the BackColor drop-down list.
In scripts
The BackColor property takes a long (-2 to 16,777,215) that
specifies the numerical value of the background color of windows
and other objects. The BackColor value is a combination of values
for the red, green, and blue components of the color.
If you do not know the long value for the color, choose Design>Custom
Colors to determine the red, green, and blue values and then call
the RGB function to specify the color in a script.
The following example sets yellow as the background color
for a graph control:
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gr_1.BackColor = RGB(255, 255, 0) |
For text displayed in the graph, BackColor is a property of
a text component, such as labels on an axis.
The following example sets background color to blue for text
labels on the Category axis of the graph control:
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gr_1.Category.LabelDispAttr.BackColor = RGB(0, 128, 255) |