How to configure the color of a read-only entry-field.

To change the default color of a read-only entry-field you can apply the background-color and foreground-color properties or the color property to combine custom background and foreground colors in the entry-field control's properties.

To change the colors externally, set the iscobol.gui.entry-field.read_only_color configuration variable.

It can be set to a single value in order to specify a combined color or to two distinct values, separated by comma, in order to specify background-color and foreground-color. Negative values are considered RGB. For example, if you want to set read-only fields to a blue background and white foreground, you can set either

iscobol.gui.entryfield.read_only_color=72
or
iscobol.gui.entryfield.read_only_color=2,16
or
iscobol.gui.entryfield.read_only_color=-128,-16777215

You can append a semi-colon and the value 1 to specify that the colors are applied only if the COLOR property is not used in the entry-field description. The default is value is 0, to always apply the colors. For instance, to set a light blue background color and a black foreground color to be applied to all entry-fields that don't already have a COLOR property, would set the variable like this:

iscobol.gui.entryfield.read_only_color=-7446992,-1;1

Article ID: 268
Created: April 5, 2016
Last Updated: January 5, 2026
Author: Support KB Author

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