Named style defaults

As in Microsoft Word, a Style object in True DBList can inherit its characteristics from another style, referred to as the parent style. For a newly created list, the Normal style is the parent (or grandparent) of all named styles. Its default properties are as follows:

Alignment	3 - General
BackColor	System Window Background
BackgroundPicture	None
BackgroundPictureDrawMode	0 - Center
Font	The ambient font of the list's container
ForeColor	System Window Text
ForegroundPicture	None
ForegroundPicturePosition	0 - Left
Parent	None
TransparentForegroundPicture	False
VerticalAlignment	0 - Top
WrapText	False

Note that the Normal style is a root-level style, since it does not have a value for the Parent property.

The Heading and Footing styles are defined similarly. Each inherits from Normal, and each overrides the following properties:

BackColor	System Button Face
ForeColor	System Button Text
VerticalAlignment	2 - Vertical Center

The Heading style overrides one additional property that the Footing style does not:

WrapText

False

The Selected style also inherits from Normal and overrides two color properties:

BackColor	System Highlight
ForeColor	System Highlight Text

The same is true of the HighlightRow style, which uses the inverse of the color settings for the default Normal style:

BackColor	System Window Text
ForeColor	System Window Background

The EvenRow and OddRow styles inherit from Normal, but only EvenRow overrides any properties:

BackColor

Light Cyan

The only style that does not inherit directly from Normal is Caption, which inherits from Heading. The reason that list and split captions are centered by default is that the Caption style specializes the following property:

Alignment

2 - Center