Color picker on form

[CaseyR]

Thanks for the new color picker, Bruce.

It looks like it is designed to do exactly what I want, but I am having some trouble getting it to work as planned.

The record has a single string entry for text and two  string entries for foreground and background colors.  I have made two color field types on the form and for each:

• turned off Show Entry Field;
• turned on Force user to use lookup;
• turned on Live-Update with the String entry as the Field with color and background color as the atrributes respectively
• Both color fields have value sent to server and Reset the value of the String field turned on.

I am getting:

• the color entry fields stay visible and displays the hex value without color;
• the string entry field does not refresh with the selected colors;
• the selected colors are saved properly and if the record is opened again from a browse the string entry field shows the right colors.

I am using NT 5.14 but I don't see any reference to the issue in the release notes since.

What am I missing?  Many thanks

[Bruce]

Hi Casey,

best way to fix your setup is if you duplicate it in a small example app, and send that to me (or post it here). Take one of the examples, example 1 would be fine, add a couple fields to the table, and add your stuff to the form.

That way I can determine if it's a setup issue - and if so how to make the setup more intuitive and robust. Of course it might just be a big - I've heard they occasionally exist.

cheers
Bruce

[CaseyR]

Thanks, Bruce

Here is the example app and dictionary with a foreground and background color fields in the MailBoxesFormControl procedure as described.  Same problem as I have with my app, perhaps worse because the color entries are only saved if there is a vailidation error (ie, no Mailbox name) first.

Thanks again.

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