You can choose Read Only - Not Grayed Out. This will make the element read only but will not change how it is drawn. Then, you can make it whatever colors you wish.

As Erika said chose "Read Only - Not Grayed Out" as opposed to choosing "Read Only".

If you insist on using "Read Only", and for some reason can't use, "Read Only - Not Grayed Out", then use the brightest color your can for the label and place it on a relatively dark background. The code works by "brightening" any color you select. If you select a bright color, it will not be able to brighten it further and you will see little to no change in readability.

In Designer, open the Form you want to affect.

Click on the desired element to select it.

On the Property Editor control panel (left side of the screen) choose the Other Tab.

There is a dropdown on this tab for Read Only. You will find the Read Only - Not Grayed Out choice on that dropdown.


See the 1.1 Sesame User Guide Pages 116-117 for further info and a screenshot.

Dave,

Quote:


Yes, that is correct.

However, you can do this dynamically by writing a bit of SBasic in the OnFormEntry event of your Form. There is a function called @UserID which returns the current user. There is also a function called @Group which returns the Security Group of the current user. You can use either of these do you what you want. For example:

If @Group = "No_Can_Do"
{
    ReadOnly(MyField, 2)
}
Else
{
    ReadOnly(MyField, 0)
} 

This method allows you a tremendous amount of control over who can do what and under what circumstances.

You can also create entirely different forms bound tot he same database that are meant to be used by certain users. Each Form can have it's own settings, programming and elements appropriate for that user.

I wrote an article about implementing security roles for Inside Sesame that details these methods. Svetlana mentioned that she intended to get the back issues, so she may have a copy of this article available.

david.lyon@cgi.com wrote on Oct 6^th, 2006 at 5:33pm:


Yes. Read-Only status is lifted for retrieve specs so a user can use those elements to search.