[Solved] Setting a Dialog Text Field Background Color

[Tom Sequitur]

According to the Basic Guide the a text object has the background color property:

"Model.BackgroundColor (long)" on page 225

Using MRI though, I don't see the BackgroundColor property. But I do see selected text and so I checked to make sure MRI was pointing to my text object by selecting "bite me" in the field and running MRI at runtime. MRI displays "bite me" under the properties tab.

I try to address the BackgroundColor tab at runtime and get property or method not found.

My code:

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otxtCitationTitle.Text = "" ' This is working
otxtCitationTitle.BackgroundColor = RGB(255, 0, 0) ' This is not

[B Marcelly]

According to the Basic Guide the a text object has the background color property:
"Model.BackgroundColor (long)" on page 225

Get the model of the control, from its view.

[Tom Sequitur]

According to the Basic Guide the a text object has the background color property:
"Model.BackgroundColor (long)" on page 225

Get the model of the control, from its view.

Ah, I conflated the instantiated object with the model of the object. I thought they were one in the same, but not so. Thanks.

My code works like now:

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otxtCitationTitle.Model.BackgroundColor = RGB(255, 0, 0)

Thanks a million!