Conditional Formatting Follow

The quick answer is yes.  See the following white paper: http://www.seagullscientific.com/label-software/whitepapers/dynamically-changing-objects-at-print-time-using-vb-script.pdf

Object properties to adjust would be:

Object.TextBackgroundColor = Color

Object.TextColor = Color

See the BarTender help system for a full reference of all properties available.

I tried this as a test but can't get it to work.

Set Notice = Objects("Text_16")

If (Field("case_description") = "NS") then

Notice.TextColor = btColor.RedColor.

Else Notice.TextColor.Green

end if

I read the documentation. It doesn't work. Not a big surprise.

What's with the tone...? I got this to work in like 2 minutes just now, so...

1. Make the database connection
2. Create a dummy BarTender text object to hold the database value
3. Assign a name to the data source of that object/substring
4. Go to File > BarTender Document Options > VB Scripting
5. Check "Use VB Scripting", add something like the below code to the "OnNewRecord" event

If Format.NamedSubStrings("bg_val").Value = "NS" Then
	Format.Objects("test").TextBackgroundColor = Black
	Format.Objects("test").TextColor = Red
Else
	Format.Objects("test").TextBackgroundColor = Green
	Format.Objects("test").TextColor = Black
End If

..whereas "bg_val" is the name of the data source that holds the database value and "test" is the name of the (BarTender) object you want to manipulate.

When you use Seagull driver, make sure print box as [Raster Graphics],

From Print dialog > Object Print Method > Box.

Also do not use device font (Printer font), use Truetype / Opentype font.

I finally got it to work. I was overlooking the named data source. Thanks for the info.