set the textStyle to not bold

[Devin Asay]

On Oct 2, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Beat Cornaz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a field with text with different textStyles. Now I just want
> to remove the bold (or any other) textStyle from that field. So
> leaving all the underline, italic. box etc textStyle parts in order.
>
> set the textStyle of fld "X" to not bold   is accepted by the editor
> but throws an error at runtime. Probably because not bold equals
> false and you can't set a textStyle to false
>
> I could write a handler which checks the textStyle of every char and
> removes the bold, but I guess there is a more easy way.

Beat,

Try this (not tested):

repeat with i = 1 to the number of words in fld "thefield"
   get the textStyle of word i of fld "thefield"
   if it contains "bold" then
     replace "bold" with empty in it
     replace ",bold" with empty in it
     replace "bold," with empty in it
     set the textStyle of word i of fld "thefield" to it
   end if
end repeat

Something like this should work.

Regards,

Devin


Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University