Basic- Color coding fields 1

[bradth]

This is a pretty basic question, but I'm not sure how to get this to work properly. Basically I have an initialize button that when pressed will either give a true or false. When true, there is a textbox that displays the text "Ready" and if false the textbox displays "Not Ready". What I would like to do is when the textbox says "Ready", have the color of it change to green, and "Not Ready" to red. Is there a line of code that will allow me to do this easily? Thanks for your help.

Brad

 

[gmmastros]

This will change the background color.

textbox.BackColor = vbGreen
textbox.BackColor = vbRed

This will change the color of the text.

textbox.ForeColor = vbGreen
textbox.ForeColor = vbRed

Personally, I try not to mess with background colors. Changing the color of the text is probably how you want to do this.


-George

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[johnwm]

The Textbox control has a BackColor property which you can set. See VBHelp and faq222-2244 paragraph 8

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[bradth]

Cheers gmmastros, works perfect.

Brad

 

[gmmastros]

Glad to help.

-George

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