getting style information from text

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi James,

Parsing the htmlText property of your field is probably the quickest  
way. Find a font tag with style="bold" and then find the next </font>  
tag, using offset.

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On 30 nov 2008, at 04:18, James Hale wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to process some styled text to set actions depending of the  
> style of the text.
>
> I have the text currently in a field and having placed it there by  
> the following code snippet:
>
>  set the RTFText of field "thetext" to the URL thepath
>
> This works fine and places the styled text in the field.
>
> I now want to go through this text, line by line, and depending on  
> whether the line is bold or not and do one thing or another.
>
> I can do this using another field "targettext" by placing the  
> RTFText of each line in turn into this field and then checking the  
> "textstyle" of the field's contents.
>
> My question is, can I do this using a variable instead of this  
> second field "targettext".
>
> It seems that when I use a variable instead of the field, the actual  
> text placed in the variable is the raw RTF and thus the "textsyle"  
> property makes no sense.
>
> So I guess I am asking if, in order to act on the style (bold or  
> plain) of the text I wish to process, am I restricted to using  
> fields as my containers.
>
>
> James Hale