Scrollfield Background Color

[geegrafix]

Anyone know how to change the background color of a scrollfield? I have tried the listed flage -bgc but it does not change it? What am I doing wrong?

[amitc]

I have found most UI elements in Maya set colors when they are created.
If you change color after creation they do not update the colors.
So I indirectly force them to refresh when I need to update colors.
Just set the visibility for the UI off and then on again in consecutive lines of mel code
See if that helps

[ewerybody]

yep!
At creation time it works good. But editing afterwards is somehow strange. At least here at windows its not drawn again unless you need to have it drawn next time: For instance: If you partially move another window over your scrolllayout and away again, the part where the window was has the new color already

Be aware that all controls and layout inside your scrollLayout can also have a bgc.

[geegrafix]

Does anyone happen to have a quick example of it working? I have tried creation time, didn't work. Thanks!

[amitc]

QUOTE(Geegrafix @ 06/08/06, 05:12 AM) [snapback]239466[/snapback]
Does anyone happen to have a quick example of it working? I have tried creation time, didn't work. Thanks!

Looks like the bgc option for scrollfield is not functional or broken.
Another MEL wierdness.

What you can consider doing is make a layout for scrollfield slightly bigger then scrollfiled size.

Here is an example
CODE
window;
columnLayout  -w 150 -h 150 -bgc 1.0 0.0 1.0  mylayout;
text -l ""; //Empty text line to have a border on top
scrollField -w 75 -h 75 -wordWrap true -text "Non editable with word wrap" -editable 1 -nl 2 sn;
text -l ""; //Empty text line to have a border at the bottom            
showWindow;

Now if you want to change color of the columnLayout
CODE
columnLayout -e -bgc 0 1 1 mylayout; //Edit color
columnLayout -e -vis 0 mylayout; //Set columnlayout invisible
columnLayout -e -vis 1 mylayout; //Make it visible again thus refreshing it with new color
Now what you have'nt told us why do you need to change color of scroll field

[geegrafix]

I figured it must be broken. I guess my original post was not very clear. I actually don't need to change it. When I typed change I just meant use a different color instead of the default. So I guess to answer your question of why I need it changed... I just wanted a different color than white. Thanks for attempting to get it working!

[ewerybody]

hmm ok. But here it works fabulous!

CODE
window;
scrollLayout -bgc 1 0 0;
    columnLayout;
    text -l "blablabla";
    text -l "blablabla";
    text -l "blablabla";
showWindow;
is red. Isn't it?

[segmoria]

Yes it works fine ewerybody but I think what Geegrafix wants is change the color of the scrollField itself, the field itself, right? Cause the following doesn't seem to work as it supposed to be:

QUOTE
window;
columnLayout;
scrollField -text "what color?" -bgc 0.1 0.5 0.1;
showWindow;

Neither creation time, nor editing afterwards seems to do a change. I'm interested to see too, if anyone comes up with a working solution to this.

[geegrafix]

Yeah, only thing is that is scrollLayout not scrollField.
Looks like you beat me to the reply...

[naughty]

the -bgc flag does not allow you to change any color other than the base panel color (i.e. the grey stuff behind everything). Control components which are not this grey cannot be changed. in exactly the same way that if you change the windows colors in your control panel so you have a disgusting red/blue/yellow/green color scheme, the white of input and number fields is still white.

The scrollField color cannot be changed using MEL.

[geegrafix]

Thanks!