Windows and controls can be colored by using color statements. The possible color statements are:

If no color statements are used, then default colors will appear on windows and controls. Color statements require named Liberty BASIC colors. Case doesn't matter in the color names, but it DOES matter in the variable names. TextboxColor$ is correct. TEXTBOXCOLOR$ is incorrect and will not be recognized as a command by Liberty BASIC. If Liberty BASIC doesn't recognize the color name in the color statement, then it will use the default value for that color.

Usage:

The BackgroundColor$ in the example above will be the default color, because Liberty BASIC doesn't recognize "uh oh" as a named color. Note that the color names are not case-sensitive, but the variable names, like TextboxColor$, as variables, must be in the correct case.

Named colors:

It is possible to have only one ForegroundColor$ for each window, so all text, statictext, radiobutton, checkbox and groupbox captions will appear in the designated ForegroundColor$.

It is also possible to have only one BackgroundColor$ for each window. Since statictext uses the designated BackgroundColor$ for its color, it is not possible to have different colors for separate statictext controls on a single window. This also applies to groupboxes, radiobuttons and checkboxes.

Buttons ignore color statements. Buttons are always filled with the color set by the user's system value for buttonface. This color is defined by Liberty BASIC as "buttonface" and it changes depending upon the user's color scheme.

Controls that can be colored individually are:

If a single control color statement is issued before the controls are created, then all controls of that type will be the same color. In the following example, all three textboxes will be cyan-colored.

It is possible to have several controls of the same type, each with its own unique color. To accomplish this, issue a new color statement before the statement to create each control, and the control will use the designated color. Do this for each color change desired. The following code will produce three textboxes, one green, one blue and one red.

The following self-contained demo shows how to have colorful controls in Liberty BASIC windows.

nomainwin

WindowWidth=600:WindowHeight=400

list$(1)="First"
list$(2)="Second"
list$(3)="Third"

ForegroundColor$="yellow"
BackgroundColor$="darkcyan"

button #main.quit, "Quit",[quit],UL,450,320,100,24

groupbox #main.g, "Groupbox",120,10,120,120
radiobutton #main.r, "Radiobutton",[quit],[quit],130,40,110,30
checkbox #main.c, "Checkbox",[quit],[quit],130,80,110,30
statictext #main.s, "Statictext",10,100,100,24

TextboxColor$="green"
textbox #main.1, 10,10,100,24

TextboxColor$="blue"
textbox #main.2, 10,40,100,24

TextboxColor$="red"

textbox #main.3, 10,70,100,24

TexteditorColor$="darkgreen"
texteditor #main.4, 10,140,200,160

TexteditorColor$="darkblue"
texteditor #main.5, 220,140,200,160

ComboboxColor$="darkred"
combobox #main.c1, list$(),[quit],10,320,200,200

ComboboxColor$="darkpink"
combobox #main.c2, list$(),[quit],220,320,200,200

ListboxColor$="brown"
listbox #main.b1, list$(),[quit],250,20,100,100

ListboxColor$="darkred"
listbox #main.b2, list$(),[quit],360,20,100,100


open "Color Demo" for window_nf as #main

#main.1 "One";
#main.2 "Two";
#main.3 "Three";
#main.4 "Four";
#main.5 "Five";
#main.c1 "selectindex 1"
#main.c2 "selectindex 2"
#main.b1 "selectindex 1"
#main.b2 "selectindex 2"

#main "trapclose [quit]"
wait

[quit]
close #main:end

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