text color

[Mike Bonner]

Oops, me again. If you want to change the color of text anywhere in a
string, inside words or not, offset is the way to go.  The code I sent..
well if you have the word "biggest" and search for g, it will hilite the b
because its the first letter of the word, and the length of the word being
searched for is 1. DOH.

So offset is the better choice because it gives you the actual start
position of the string in question, at which point the color change is easy
peasy.

This is where you end up.

on mouseUp
   set the traversalOn of field "Results" to true
   put the text of field Results into tResults
   put the text of field "SearchField" into strSearch
   put the length of strSearch into tLength
   put 1 into tFramePos
   put 0 into tPreviousOffset
   repeat while tFramePos <> 0
      put Offset(strSearch,tResults,tPreviousOffset) into tFramePos --
change to offset

   -- select the right set of chars. The -1 is so that you
   --don't count the first char twice, and select an extra. IF that makes
sense.
      select char (tFramePos + tPreviousOffset) to (tFramePos +
tPreviousOffset + tLength - 1) of field "results"
      set the textColor of the selection to red
      put tFramePos + tPreviousOffset into tPreviousOffset
   end repeat
   select empty
end mouseUp