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I'm trying to set the background color of a mobile grid programmatically. I've tried two different methods. One, binding the odd and even row background colors to a 7 byte field, then passing in the hex color value. And, binding those fields to an indicator value, and setting the off and on values to the colors I want. Neither have any effect on the grid.

Any ideas?

Mark,

You're on the right track. In the designer, when you bind an indicator to represent a background color, you need to set the field formatting to 'indicator' and select the 'custom values' for the indicator format. Then you can either select the hex value, or simple color names like in the screen shot below.

Please write back if you still experience troubles!

Mark,

In order to give it a rounded, silvery sort of appearance, the mobile grid uses an image for it's background. The image is applied via the "mobile-grid" CSS class -- if you look at the CSS class for the grid widget, you'll see that it has already been set to "mobile-grid". Since this image takes precedence over the background color, whatever color you set will not be visible.

Try changing the CSS class to "simple-grid". You'll lose the fancy rounded effect, but your odd/even colors should start working.

Good luck

If I use that CSS class, will the grid be scrolling? This is to be used as mobile so I need a scrolling grid.

Changing the CSS class doesn't affect how the grid scrolls.

Thanks, Scott.

Ok, I was able to get the color to change, but it looks like it's changing when the subfile grid is rendering. That is, the value effects the entire grid. I need to change the colors of the rows individually. Is this possible?

Yes, that's the way the odd/even row colors are meant to work -- they always affect the entire grid. There isn't really an option for changing the individual rows, but here's a way you can do it:

1) drag a label widget into the grid cell.
2) set the labels left/top properties to 0, and the height/width properties to 100%.
3) bind the background color property of the label as desired.
4) delete the "value" property so that it does not say anything in the label
5) Use "Send to back" so that other widgets can appear on top of it.

If you have more than one column in your grid, you'll have to do this for each column. (But, the mobile grid has only one column by default)

Hope that helps!

Thanks again, Scott.