II. GUI Basics

Chapter 9. Widgets Styles

Highlight Color

Highlight style paints the highlight background 'color'. Whenever the mouse rolls over, the background is set to this color.
See also setBackground

Highlight style paints the highlight foreground 'color'. Whenever the mouse rolls over, the foreground is set to this color.
See also setForeground

See also setHighlight on how to set highlight 'true'/'flase' for a button.
NOTE: if setOpaque="false" then the highlight color will not display.

NOTE: This property is NOT inherited by its children.

Method signature

setBackgroundHighlight = "[color]"
[color] is a 6 digit hexadecimal value

setForegroundHighlight = "[color]"
[color] is a 6 digit hexadecimal value

Examples

In this example we will be using a button widget

.. setBackgroundHighlight="33CCCC" setForegroundHighlight="990066"

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