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Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Xview scrolling lists
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Date: 13 Feb 91 17:25:22 GMT
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> 	Thanks to all for the answers I got on my repaint question. Now for
> another query about scrolling lists. Is there any way to color individual lines
> in a scrolling list different colors ? Ie, I would like one line to be one color
> and the next line to be a different color. I called Sun in California and
> someone is looking into it for me. I'll post anything I hear. Thanks in
> advance !

	I wanted to do this a *long* time ago with regular text and was told 
	by Sun that it breaks the OPENLOOK spec, so its not available.

	But I suppose that if you *really* want to go thru the trouble, you 
	could create server images that have a SERVER_IMAGE_DEPTH of > 1 
	and use PANEL_LIST_GLYPHS instead of PANEL_LIST_STRINGS in your 
	scrolling lists.  But this seems like a real pain.

	For applications that I do, multi-color PANEL_LISTS (text) would
	be more than "nice-to-have".


	Frank G.

	Now if a bonafide XVIEW spreadsheet object was built that could
	handle different-colored cells, that would handle two problems:
	the lack of a spreadsheet (or editable matrix) object, and
	by using a one-column spreadsheet, get multi-colored scrolling
	lists.