text formatting

[John Allijn]

Hu Ian,
Thanks, that may just do the trick!
Thanks,
John

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On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:53, Ian McKnight <iangmcknight at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John
> 
> I would look at the HTMLtext property in the Manual/Dictionary.
> 
> You would take your text, line by line, and wrap each one with the
> appropriate HTML code
> eg
> put "<font color=grey size=1>"&dateStamp&"</font>&cr into myMsg
> put "<font color=black size=2><b>"&firstName&&surName&"</b></font>"&cr after
> myMsg
> put "<font color=blue>"&theMessage&"</font>"&cr after myMsg
> set the HTMLText of fld "myField" to myMsg
> 
> To get the size 16 point text you may have too set the default text size of
> the field to 16 - the HTML should vary it.
> To get the ruled line I think it will be necessary to produce a graphic line
> and use the <img src> tag to reference it.
> 
> 
> I haven't tried this so you may have to change the colour references to
> numeric values but this hopefully will put you on the correct track
> 
> 
> On 9 July 2011 08:22, John Allijn <john.allijn at alice.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have a textfield where I want to present a chunk of text, formatted in a
>> few different styles.
>> 
>> This is what the text looks like:
>> 
>> ---
>> On <timestamp>
>> <firstname> <Lastname> wrote:
>> <message text>
>> ---
>> 
>> and this is how I like to represent it:
>> 
>> - the text "on timestamp" should be gray and 8 points
>> - the firstname and lastname should be 10 points, black and bold
>> - the message should be 16 points, blue, regular.
>> - put in a divider-line
>> 
>> The problem is that the message-text varies in length and that there may be
>> multiple messages in the field. This means (but maybe I'm wrong) that I have
>> to set the TextColor and TextSize properties while populating the field and
>> that I cannot do this afterwards.
>> 
>> So:
>> - How can I set the style of the text, put some text in the field and
>> change the style again?
>> - how can I put in a horizontal line that separates the messages?
>> 
>> thank you for your thoughts!
>> John.
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> 
> 
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> 
> 
> Ian McKnight
> 
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