Bug: Text link colours don't change as expected

**planetsquid** · 17 July 2009, 01:54 PM

Hello

I'm designing a website using XXP 5.1 and have noticed some unexpected behaviour.

On the "Website" tab of the "Website Properties" dialog I have chosen a named colour for the "Mouse Off Colour" option.

When I edit the named colour, all of the objects in my design change accordingly, but the links do not change to reflect the new colour.

Previewing the site displays the links with the correct colours. Saving, closing, then reopening the .xar file fixes the problem.

Can anyone else reproduce this problem? I attach an example of the bug.

Rich

**Albacore** · 18 July 2009, 10:05 AM

Hi Rich
I am sorry it works for me!

**cursor** · 18 July 2009, 02:54 PM

I see the same thing, Rich. Within the .xar file you note:

Originally Posted by planetsquid

Try editing the named colour. The Objects at the top of the page change as expected, but the link in the body of text does not change. Preview the website and notice how the link colour has changed.

To be clear, you're saying that the edited color changes only when/after doing a Preview. All other items are dynamically affected during the color edit.

The graphic below shows how the text link color doesn't change dynamically during color editing.

**Albacore** · 18 July 2009, 03:42 PM

I highlighted some of you placeholder text just to show how all four change and did a screen shot.

**steve.ledger** · 18 July 2009, 07:47 PM

Yes there appears to be a bug with the link colour not re drawing and updating the text with the colour changes on the page.
Draging a shape over the text forces a redraw, as does when pressing Ctrl+SHIFT+T

PLEASE WAIT FOR FLASH VIDEO TO LOAD: 1.25mb

**cursor** · 18 July 2009, 08:24 PM

That's a really handy demonstration, Steve.

**Albacore** · 19 July 2009, 10:34 AM

How did it work for me? Did I change the properties of the link by using Ctrl+Shift+S? I can't honestly remember but it works.

**Soquili** · 19 July 2009, 12:36 PM

Try assigning the named colour the the text you will use for a link before opening the Web Properties dialog.

**planetsquid** · 20 July 2009, 07:41 AM

Hello

Steve, you've managed to isolate the bug with your video. Thanks for that.

The bug disappears if, as Soquili suggested, you manually set the colour of the text link by selecting it and then click on the named colour on the colour palette.

However, if you create a some text, assign a link to it, but leave the text the default colour - the redrawing bug manifests (as seen in Steve's video above).

I think this goes to demonstrate the point that Covoxer made in a recent post that adding additional features/tools to Xtreme is a very complicated process as you need to address the way that the new feature/tool will interact with the existing ones.

Rich