htmlText question

[Doug Lerner]

On 1/5/04 3:51 PM, "Dar Scott" <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 04:01 PM, Doug Lerner wrote:
> 
>>> On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 07:27 AM, Doug Lerner wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Actually, all I'm trying to do is occasionally put a styled line into
>>>> the
>>>> field. :)
>>> 
>>> I use my own commands for appending lines.  You might have one for
>>> appending a bold line and one for appending a line not bold.  This
>>> also
>>> keeps my line ends consistent.
>> 
>> So you append all yours with either just <p>text</p> or <p><b>bold
>> text</b></p>, using the same approach I did?
> 
> Actually I set properties of the last n chars, where n is the length of
> the line I just appended.  Your idea might be better.  I'm not sure
> where yours will put the line-end; I would have to experiment.

One problem is that my field scrolls as I add more to it. But setting the
last line (and presumably the last n characters) seems to have the bad side
effect of always keeping the last line with that setting... hmmm...

doug