topic Button Color Not Changing in ArcPad Questions

Button Color Not Changing

RobChouinard — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 21:53:29 GMT

I just can't seem to figure this one out. How to change the color of a button in a form. The color stays the same as all other buttons. I've tried both the RGB and HTML Name values. Here is a my form:

<FORM name="MsgBoxYesNoForm" caption="Select Yes or No" width="130" height="130" tabsvisible="false" onok="Call MsgBoxYes()" oncancel="Call MsgBoxNo()">
 <PAGE name="PAGE1" caption="" sip="false">
  <LABEL name="MsgLabel" y="5" width="127" height="20" caption="A Yes No Question?" tooltip="" group="true" border="false" fontsize="9" alignment="center"/>
  <BUTTON name="NoButton" x="20" y="25" width="87" height="28" onclick="Call NoClick()" caption="NO" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="false" backgroundcolor="Green" fontsize="15" alignment="center"/>
  <BUTTON name="YesButton" x="20" y="58" width="87" height="28" onclick="Call YesClick()" caption="YES" tooltip="" tabstop="true" border="false" backgroundcolor="255,0,0" fontsize="15" alignment="center"/>
 </PAGE>
</FORM>

The help says this about the button backgroundcolor attribute:

backgroundcolor - The background color to use for the button. If not specified, this value is inherited from the page's backgroundcolor attribute.

backgroundcolor ="RGB | HTML RGB | HTML Name (e.g., 0,0,255 | #0000FF | Blue)"

I'm using ArcPad 10 on a Windows XP netbook and ArcPad Studio 10. Scratching my head on this one. :confused:

Anyone else have this problem???

Thanks,

Rob

Re: Button Color Not Changing

RolfBroch — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:25:39 GMT

Have you tried to it on a Windows Mobile device?

I have earlier had som issues with non-WM OS devices such as XP, and Vista and the way colour shows up.

Rolf

Re: Button Color Not Changing

EddieViljoen — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 07:35:14 GMT

OK, so anybody with a real answer to this question?

Re: Button Color Not Changing

RobChouinard — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:35:23 GMT

I never did figure it out. Seems like there is some lack of support with Windows desktop OS's. I couldn't test it with a Windows Mobile device. The only PDAs I have hanging around here are Pocket PC 2002 and do not work with ArcPad 8+.

Re: Button Color Not Changing

DeniseKing — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:21:14 GMT

Hi all,

We have logged this behavior as CQ00312868; BUTTON control attributes BACKGROUNDCOLOR and COLOR not retaining modifications in Forms. Please contact Esri Support to have your customer information added to this bug. We apologize for any challenge this behavior has caused in your ArcPad projects.

Thank you for bringing this to our attention,
Denise