text formatting

[John Allijn]

Hi Peter, Ian,
I'm getting closer :)
Formatting works quite well this way. 
Thanks again,
John.


On Jul 10, 2011, at 6:16 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote:

> You can create the htmltext by hand as suggested, or you can do something like the following (not tested):
> 
> ---------- <script snippet>
> local dvdr = "------------"      -- or whatever
> 
> -- tEntry contains the template for an entry
> 
> replace "<timestamp>" with tTime in tEntry
> replace "<firstName>" with tFirstName in tEntry
> replace "<lastName>" with tLastName in tEntry
> replace "<message>" with msgText in tEntry
> repeat while cr is char -1 of fld "msgList"
>   delete char -1 of fld "msgList"
>   -- make sure no empty lines in fld
> end repeat
> if line -1 of fld "msgList" <> dvdr then
>   put cr & dvdr after fld "msgList"
> end if
> put the number of lines of fld "msgList" into startLineNbr
> put cr & tEntry after fld "msgList"
> set the textFont of line startLineNbr+1 to -1 of fld "msgList" \
>       to empty -- start with no formatting
> -- on <timestamp>
> set the textSize of line startLineNbr+1 of fld "msgList" to 8
> set the forecolor of line startLineNbr+1 of fld "msgList" \
>       to gray
> -- <firstName> <lastName: wrote:
> set the textStyle of word 1 to -2 of line startLineNbr+2 of \
>       fld "msgList" to bold
> -- <message>
> set the textSize of line startLineNbr+3 to -1 of fld "msgList" \
>       to 16
> set the forecolor of line startLineNbr+3 to -1 of fld "msgList" \
>       to blue
> ---------- </script snippet>
> 
> HTH,
> -- Peter
> 
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
> 
> 
> On Jul 9, 2011, at 12:53 AM, Ian McKnight 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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>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards
>> 
>> 
>> Ian McKnight
>> 
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