Exporting coloured text to HTML and RTF from 8.1.4

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sun Jul 2 13:31:29 EDT 2017


I think I "beat" you by about half a minute.

Thank you for the advice.

Best, Richmond.

On 7/2/17 8:24 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> Use the htmltext instead of the (plain) text:
>
> set the htmltext of fld x to the htmltext of fld y
>
> The rtftext would work too, both carry styling and text size info. 
> Using plain text is just that, it is text without any style information.
>
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>
> On July 2, 2017 11:58:26 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> The problem is quite different: and this only became clear when I tested
>> your script inwith my Devawriter Pro
>> and outwith it in a simpler stack.
>>
>> The problem is that the text that becomes colourised is then moved intil
>> another field, and then is exported from
>> that field; during the movement from the first field to the second one
>> its styling is lost:
>>
>> setthetextoffld "fRESULT" ofcard "ATTIC" tothetextoffld "fRESULT" ofcard
>> "DEVANAGARI"
>>
>> setthetextSizeoffld "fRESULT" ofcard "ATTIC" tothetextSizeoffld
>> "fRESULT" ofcard "DEVANAGARI"
>>
>> Presumably (?)  I will need a third line something like this:
>>
>> setthetextColoroffld "fRESULT" ofcard "ATTIC" tothetextColoroffld
>> "fRESULT" ofcard "DEVANAGARI"
>>
>> indeed, that is what I am about to try.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
>>
>> On 7/2/17 6:24 pm, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote:
>>> How are you trying to export the text? Works alright here with Indy 
>>> 8.1.4 and MacOS 10.13.
>>> Sample script that works for me:
>>>
>>> on mouseUp
>>>
>>>    ask file "Give your file a name:”
>>>
>>>    put "file:" & it into tURL
>>>
>>>    if char - 1 to -4 of tURL <> ".rtf" then
>>>
>>>      put ".rtf" after tURL
>>>
>>>    end if
>>>
>>>    put rtfText of field 1 into url tURL
>>>
>>> end mouseUp
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Tore Nilsen
>>>
>>>> 2. jul. 2017 kl. 16:37 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode 
>>>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>>
>>>> I like blue cheese . . .
>>>>
>>>> But I don't like what happens when I try to export coloured text from
>>>> a field in LC 8.1.4 as the _colours_ are NOT exported.
>>>>
>>>> This is ODD as a while back the colours were exporting . . . .
>>>>
>>>> Mac OS 10.7.8,  LC 8.1.4 Indy.
>>>>
>>>> Richmond.
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