Speed in setting text styles

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Jim Hurley <jhurley at infostations.com> wrote:
> I wish to set the textstyle of certain lines in a
> field to bold and 
> then export the field in RTF.
> 
> I have run  through the fields to determine the line
> number of  these 
> lines. There are about 11,000 lines and about half
> are to be set to 
> bold.
> 
> Using:
> 
>    repeat for each item tItem in tLineNums
>      set the textstyle of line tItem of field 1 to
> "bold" 
>    end repeat
> 
> where tLineNums contains the numerical values of the
> line numbers of 
> field 1 which are to be set to bold.
> 
> This repeat loop takes about 25 minutes on my
> machine.
> 
> Since you can't set the textStyle of a line in a
> variable, I see no 
> way to speed this up. Any ideas?
> 
> Jim
> 

Hi Jim,

Off the top of my head : use lock screen, and use a
field on a different card, then set the htmlText of
the real field to the htmlText of the auxiliary field.

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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