set the textStyle not to bold

Beat Cornaz B.Cornaz at gmx.net
Thu Oct 8 03:29:05 EDT 2009


Richard wrote :

 >I've tried using graphics for things like that.  Seems like fun at
 >first, until you need to wrap across different lines.  Then you  
need to
 >handle different textHeights.  Then you pull out all your hair. ;)

 >One of the cool things about htmlText is that it's designed as the one
 >way to have complete fidelity for reproducing a field's contents,  
style
 >runs and all.

 >So conceivably you could add in tags for backgroundcolor of the text
 >runs you want visually distinct.  It can take a bit of clever  
parsing to
 >get it right, but check out the optional third param for the offset
 >function in the dictionary - it's a godsend for parsing tasks like  
this.

 >To see the format of htmlText, style some text in a field how you want
 >it and run "put the htmlText of fld 1" in the Message Box.  Everything
 >you can do with a field can be represented in htmlText, so conversely
 >you can do anything to htmlText that you can do to a field.

Thanks Richard, you're right. I had come across it last night when I  
was trying it with a graphic.
I will dive into the html and use it's tags for changing the  
backColor. Great!

best,
Beat Cornaz





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