Is it possible to set just one word of a text to bold ?

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sun Sep 10 16:54:30 EDT 2006


On 9/10/06 3:20 PM, "jbv" <jbv.silences at club-internet.fr> wrote:

> 
> 
> William,
> 
> Here's a suggestion that is worth trying :
> 
> get wordoffset("Taal",tData)
> put "<B>Taal</B>" into word it of tData
> set the htmlText of fld 1 to tData

An alternative (without HTML) is :

get wordoffset("Taal",tData)
set the textStyle of word it to bold

>> The next action is that the user copies the entire text (with the bold
>> word "Taal") into another field. I guess it will lose the bold word
>> "Taal" then. This needs to work too!

No, you can say:

  set the htmlText of fld 2 to the htmlText of fld 1

This will carry over an exact copy of fld 2 into fld 1

HTH,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com




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