colors in scrolling text field

[Jon]

Eric:

Your response is, as usual, excellent.  Except that, as I said, I did 
try putting HTML into a scrolling field, and all I got was the typical 
HTML garbage on the screen; the HTML commands were not interpreted 
correctly.  Do I have to put the HTML someplace special, or enable it 
somehow?

Thanks!

:)

Jon


Eric Chatonet wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> Le 23 août 05 à 23:18, Jon a écrit :
>
>> I am creating a scrolling log of program activities, and want to  
>> color code the output so that normal events are black or green, but  
>> problems are shown in red.  I played with setting colors in a  
>> regular field, and the colors seem to stick to the field positions,  
>> rather than moving with the characters.  Am I correct about this?
>>
>> I tried setting the foregroundcolor in a text chunk that was stored  
>> in a local variable, but that failed.  The idea was to set the  
>> colors up in the string before it went out to the scrolling field,  
>> in the hopes that the colors would magically be set in the string  
>> and follow the characters out to the scrolling field.  This does  not 
>> seem to work either.
>>
>> Am I trying to do something that is not possible in Rev, or am I  
>> just not clear on how to accomplish this?  I know that HTML support  
>> is somehow built into parts of Rev: would using <font color=green>  
>> work?  I tried it, and it did not work trivially.
>
>
> Using HTML is the right way to display coloured text and more  
> generally styled text:
> (here a tab delimited list where each line has a different colour and  
> the first one is in bolded style)
>
> <p><font color="#006400"><b>1/14/05	4:06:38 PM	Start</b></ 
> font></p>
> <p><font color="#804000">1/14/05	5:56:47 PM	Auto  
> backup	Done	Mailing base_3</font></p>
> <p><font color="#646464">1/14/05	6:26:51 PM	Auto  
> backup	Undone	Unchanged file size</font></p>
>
> You might be interested in the Encoded Text Picker plugin which  
> translates both to and from HTML and/or URLEncode, letting you to set  
> styles, colors, etc. and watch the resulting html code and the "How  
> to Create and Manage HTML lists" tutorial.
> Both are available from my website.
>
> Best Regards from Paris,
>
> Eric Chatonet.
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