Thanks, I had just come back to post that solution. I don't know why I couldn't do it before, must have been a conflicting setting.
Thanks for the input.
I would only add for the sake of those who come across this thread that I would use this very sparingly, forms tweaked this way could become quite ugly. In the current situation I have to narrow the form because some of the elements in the lists are quite lengthy and I have limited space to work in. However, forms should generaly look and behave the way users are accustomed to. FWIW.
@UbikJan 05.2006 — #FWIW, I do a lot of 'user can tell what's going on' with background colors and font colors, such as when I have a trouble-ticketing system, they can instantly tell what kind of severity to assign the ticket, if the option elements are different colors:
[B]
Select the severity of this ticket:
[COLOR=Red]Sev 1 - Critical[/COLOR]
[COLOR=Yellow]Sev 2 - Non-Functioning[/COLOR]
[COLOR=Orange]Sev 3 - WorkaroundOk[/COLOR]
[COLOR=SeaGreen]Sev 4 - LikeToHave[/COLOR]
[/B]
I have the backgrounds set to darker colors so that they can be read easily, I think you get the idea.
@scaiferwauthorJan 05.2006 — #FWIW, I do a lot of 'user can tell what's going on' with background colors and font colors, such as when I have a trouble-ticketing system, ....
I have the backgrounds set to darker colors so that they can be read easily, I think you get the idea.[/QUOTE] Exactly what I'm doing with these droplists; When a droplist has anything other than the default it has a blue background, so it's clear which droplists are active and which are not.