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In my Canvas app, I am currently setting all my labels and text by creating a label on another screen, setting the colour to my chosen colour and naming the label to FillMe.

But now I have referenced this a lot of times I'm seeing lots of issue messages under performance 'Inefficient delay loading' and I find my form takes an age to load in design mode.

Is there a better way of doing the above, I will probably have to make lots of changes, but maybe I can create a variable?

If anyone can suggest a better way please?

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iAm_ManCat 18,228 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi!

Setting a variable during your App's OnStart is definitely better, then reference it from your objects

RGBA:

Set( FillMe, RGBA(255,255,255,1) )

OR

HEX:

Set( FillMe, ColorValue("#FFFFFF") )

OR

Colour Enumeration:

Set( FillMe, Blue)

Then just have your control properties set to FillMe

Let me know if this helps,

Cheers,

Sancho

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eka24 20,923 on at

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I had the same issue. What you can do is to set a variable on start or Onvisible of the home screen. Set(Fillme,Blue)
Then on each of the screen fill property, use the variable: Fillme

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HI @eka24 @iAm_ManCat

Thanks for both your responses... I thought I'd do whats suggested, and on the app on start I have added a variable Set(FillMe, RGBA(My colours, 1); and I can see this is set correctly as I can see the colour show up, but having now gone and deleted the colour label I had created I thought, it would use the above variable I have just created, but it doesn't so i checked the property of the label and buttons and I try change the Fill property from FillMe.Color to just FillMe trying to ref the variable I have just set, it doesn't find the variable I have set on app on start?

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I'm pretty sure this is because the variable has the same name of the old control so there is a conflict - you will need to change all occurrences of FillMe.Color to FillMe, then re-run the OnStart

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HI @iAm_ManCat

Yes that's what I thought, so I deleted the old FillMe label... so now I have loads of red x on my app but when I try to go to the Fill property and remove FillMe.Color to just FillMe it doesn't locate the variable - "Name isn't valid. This Identifier isn't recognized" - which seems strange as it should locate the variable set OnStart... I've saved and restarted, as the Run OnStart didn't work, but still the same issue it wont allow me to ref the variable

Having tried changing a few things, it now detects the variable when I got to the property, but I get a red line under the variable, and states 'Expected Color Value' I've tried to do FillMe.Color but that doesn't work... unsure how I the button to ref the variable color

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Yes, it might still be having a conflict,

You could change your onStart variable to a different name like FillMeNew, re-run your OnStart, then use that in all of the properties.

Let me know if that sorts it out for you!

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hi @iAm_ManCat

Tried that by changing the variable name to FillMe1 but still same issue...

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iAm_ManCat 18,228 Most Valuable Professional on at

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I see you're missing a closing bracket as well:

Set(FillMe1, RGBA(My Colours, 1);

should be:

Set(FillMe1, RGBA(My Colours, 1) );

What happens when you create a new label and set one of it's colours to FillMe1 ? Could you post a screenshot showing the error?

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eka24 20,923 on at

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Please are you filling the label or coloring the text in the label. Also don't use Fill. Color just use Fillme

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Yes, prior to your response I realised I was missing the close bracket

Tried this again and if I changed the colours to Blue, this worked, so then knew the variable was working... changed back to RGBA colours and wouldn't work, now it just started working!

Thank you both for your help, strange behaviour

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