Script to Change Row Color when a cell changes text

Question

I have a Google spreadsheet where I keep a list of bugs and whenever I fix a bug I change the status from \"Not Started\" to \"Complete\". I want to write a script for the

Answer 1

I used GENEGC's script, but I found it quite slow.

It is slow because it scans whole sheet on every edit.

So I wrote way faster and cleaner method for myself and I wanted to share it.

function onEdit(e) {
    if (e) { 
        var ss = e.source.getActiveSheet();
        var r = e.source.getActiveRange(); 

        // If you want to be specific
        // do not work in first row
        // do not work in other sheets except "MySheet"
        if (r.getRow() != 1 && ss.getName() == "MySheet") {

            // E.g. status column is 2nd (B)
            status = ss.getRange(r.getRow(), 2).getValue();

            // Specify the range with which You want to highlight
            // with some reading of API you can easily modify the range selection properties
            // (e.g. to automatically select all columns)
            rowRange = ss.getRange(r.getRow(),1,1,19);

            // This changes font color
            if (status == 'YES') {
                rowRange.setFontColor("#999999");
            } else if (status == 'N/A') {
                rowRange.setFontColor("#999999");
            // DEFAULT
            } else if (status == '') { 
                rowRange.setFontColor("#000000");
            }   
        }
    }
}