Dynamic Background color in Studio

[chrishallowell]

Is there a way to dynamically assign the background color of text? (If not text, some other widget?)

Example:
Say I have this code in Studio:
theStatus = Hallowell_football_Client_VitalScreenInfo_getStatus(vsInfo)

If theStatus = "Go" then I want to assign the background color of the text to green. If it's equal to "Stop" then the color should be red.

Attached is what I have so far.

Thanks!
Chris

[GKusnick]

Put a Shape or Image widget behind the text, like so:

Panel
  If theStatus
    > "Go"
      green Shape
    > "Stop"
      red Shape
  theDataCells
    Untitled Text widget

Panel
  If theStatus
    > "Go"
      "greenimage.png"
        Image
    > "Stop"
      "redimage.png"
        Image
  theDataCells
    Untitled Text widget

For a working example, look at the code in the stock STV that generates the colored cell backgrounds in the Program Guide.

[PLUCKYHD]

You could also just put a if equation in the background color of the panel theme for that text.

=If(theStatus=="Go",greencolor,redcolor)

green color and red color would of course be the 0XX... Color reference. You have to encapusulate them in quotes as well in the theme widget.

[chrishallowell]

Thanks guys. I got both ways to work.