BackColor
property for PowerScript controls
Applies to
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) |