Correction: Someone on the Carbon list just asked and this was the response from Apple. Sorry, I thought I read somewhere this was part of Panther. I was wrong. W. << Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 16:37:16 -0500 From: Ian Anderson <iana@...> Subject: Re: Data Browser - Alternating Background To: carbon-dev@... Message-ID: <3CB65E68-1004-11D9-9A1B-000A9583D500@...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed This is probably the #1 Data Browser question. Unfortunately you don't get a prize for being the 100th person to ask. =P As of Mac OSX 10.3.5 you can't have an alternating blue/white background in a Data Browser at all, whether you made your DB from a nib or programmatically. As for future Mac OS X releases, I don't think I'm the right person to comment. Ian > Folks, > > Is there any way to make a Data Browser have an alternating blue/white > background *without* using Interface Builder? > > I have a browser created via CreateDataBrowserControl, and cannot see > any obvious way of setting this tag. > > Many thanks, > Richard >> -----Original Message----- From: Edwards, Waverly [mailto:Waverly.Edwards@...] Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 11:35 AM To: futurebasic@... Subject: RE: [FB] Data browser item background colour Unfortunately this is not possible except in Cocoa and under Panther. There has been a lot of discussion and inquiries about this feature on Apples Carbon list. It would have to be a custom column in which you setup in order to make that work. W. -----Original Message----- From: Bernie Wylde [mailto:bernie.w@...] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 6:15 AM To: futurebasic@... Subject: [FB] Data browser item background colour I could try and work this out for myself but... why should I?... that's what you guys get paid for: How can I pursuade my data browser to put that alternate blue/white background behind the items (similar to iTunes)? Things I _have_ tried: • fn SetDataBrowserItemDataRGBColor() • Text cfs.backcolor Bernie (TFBD coder) -- --