Styled Text, htmlText and Variables

[Edwin Gore]

Actually, no I am doing it the stupid way. What you have described does
exactly that I want to do, in a variable.

I'm off to change this...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron" <rbarber at yhb.att.ne.jp>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: Styled Text, htmlText and Variables


Hi Edwin

I do this kind of thing all the time with a repeat loop and
replace/replacetext as suggested by Björnke. I add html encoding to the
variable in the loop. It sounds like you are changing things in the fld?
How?

if the author is item one in a list then:

repeat for each line l in thetext
put "<b>" & item 1 of l & "</b>" & item 2 to number of items of l & return
after newtext
end repeat

set the htmltext of fld 1 to newtext

Is this the kind of thing you are doing?

>
> That's what I figured. I have one thing where I build a list of artists
with
> cd titles beneath them and I wanted to bold just the artists. Turned out
that
> I needed to put a special character in front of the artists as I pulled
them
> into a variable, then thunk them all into a field and go through and bold
the
> marked lines and remove the special character. I was hoping that I could
to it
> outside of the field, since I thought it might be a little faster.
>
> Ah well...it stil only take 150 milliseconds  for 80 entries this way.
>

>> You just can't set the style or such, instead use
>> the replace and
>> replaceText commands.
>>
>> On Mittwoch, Apr 30, 2003, at 21:53 Europe/Zurich,
>> Edwin Gore wrote:
>>
>>> Am I correct in thinking that you can't change
>> the style of or get the
>>> htmlText of a variable?
>>>
>>> It doesn't work when I try it, meaning that I
>> have to thunk the
>>> variable's content into a field to do these
>> thigns with/to it.
>>>
>>> I ask only be cause I am trying to optimize some
>> stuff...

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