Re: [Fxruby-users] Setting individual cell color with FXTableItem::drawBackground( )?

[Claus W. S. <cws...@ac...>]

I had read that and was trying to avoid subclassing FXTableItem. Oh 
well, I guess I will have to wait for 1.2 then. If only the API 
documentation was a bit more complete...

Paul Rogers wrote:
> This was posted to CLR by Lyle
> 
> Daniel Sperl wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there a way to change the color of a _single_ cell?
>>Or does anyone know a workaround?
> 
> 
> There isn't a straightforward way to do this in FOX 1.0. You could 
> conceivably do it by subclassing FXTableItem and overriding its 
> drawContent() method, but that is much more problematic than it should 
> be. Hopefully, Jeroen will address some of these limitations in FOX 1.2.
>  
> 
> (http://groups.google.ca/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=1072
> 716784.464720%40news.liwest.at&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DFXTable%2Bcell%
> 2Bgroup:comp.lang.ruby%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26gro
> up%3Dcomp.lang.ruby%26selm%3D1072716784.464720%2540news.liwest.at%26rnum
> %3D4 )
> 
> I don't know if it still applies - It was posted in December of last
> year
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fxr...@li...
> [mailto:fxr...@li...] On Behalf Of Claus W.
> Spitzer
> Sent: 25 March 2004 20:25
> To: fxr...@li...
> Subject: [Fxruby-users] Setting individual cell color with
> FXTableItem::drawBackground( )?
> 
> 
> I've recently begun working a bit with FXRuby. While messing around with
> 
> the code for Tables, I found out that I cannot set individual cell 
> colors with FXTable::setCellColor . Now, looking at the API I noticed 
> that FXTableItem has an instance method called drawBackground, with the 
> parameters table, dc, x, y, w, h. I am assuming that dc is a FXDC 
> object, table the parent table of the FXTableItem in question, x and y 
> coordinated in pixels, and w and h width and height in pixels. So I 
> figured that I could possibly set individual cell color with something 
> along the lines of
>     @table.getItem( row, col ).drawBackground( @table, dc, x, y, w, h )
> However, my attempts so far have been in vain. I've attempted to get x, 
> y, w, and h by using
>     @table.getColumnX( col ),
>     @table.getRowY( row ),
>     @table.getItem( row, col ).getWidth( @table ), and
>     @table.getItem( row, col ).getHeight( @table ) respectively. I
> wasn't sure what to use for dc, so I created a new FXDC 
> by using
>     dc = FXDC.new( self )
> (which didn't work if I recall correctly). So my question is, is it even
> 
> possible to use FXTableItem.drawBackground or am I on a futile quest? If
> 
> it is possible, what should I use for dc?
> 
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