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**brown monkey** · Dec 9th, 2004, 03:19 AM

Is there something wrong in my code?

Code:

(i%2==0)?li.BackColor=Color.White:li.BackColor=Color.OldLace;

BTW, li is a ListViewItem. Thank you.

edit: The error is "Only assignment, call, increment, decrement, and new object expressions can be used as a statement"

**TomGibbons** · Dec 9th, 2004, 08:58 AM

As far as I'm aware, it goes

Code:

(expression)?statement:statement;

I don't think you can actually use expressions in place of the statements. It's just for returning values.

Try

Code:

if ( i%2 == 0 )
{
     li.BackColor = Color.White;
}
else
{
     li.BackColor = Color.OldLace;
}

I'm pretty sure that will work.

**TomGibbons** · Dec 9th, 2004, 09:29 AM

Oh I just thought of something actually;

Code:

li.BackColor = (i%2 == 0)?Color.White:Color.OldLace;

Try that

**brown monkey** · Dec 9th, 2004, 08:17 PM

Originally Posted by TomGibbons

Oh I just thought of something actually;

Code:

li.BackColor = (i%2 == 0)?Color.White:Color.OldLace;

Try that

God. I'm totally lost. Thank you, Tommy.

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