I suggest that you use a labelFunction feeding a renderer that uses htmlText. The label function would simply parse the strings to get the letters, and wrap them in a Font tag specifying the color. This would be very easy.
Tracy Spratt, Lariat Services, development services available _____ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of valdhor Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:44 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Re: RegEx string via cell ItemRenderer to colorize specific characters or a better method? Have a look into TextRange. --- In flexcod...@yahoogro <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ups.com, Adrian Williams <adri...@...> wrote: > > Hi All, > > Here's a fun one! > > I have a column in an ADG, and the cells can contain a variety of > data including: > > 16223T,16290T,16319A,16362C,16524G > or > 73G,249-,263G,290-,291-,309.1C,315.1C,489C,493G,522-,523- > > What I need to do is for each of the letters (there's four possible > - A,T,C,G) I need to be able to change the font color specific to each > letter...i.e. all the "A's" need to be green, the "C's" need to be blue, > the "G's" need to be black and the "T's" need to be red. > > As I've been thinking about it, I figure I'm going to have to use a > custom itemRenderer for the cell to manipulate the data to begin with. > But within the renderer, I'm quasi-stuck. I figure the simplest way to > ID the letters is to RegExp the data...then possibly using a switch/case > to set the colors for the letters...but not sure how to affect just the > individual letters in the overall string and then return that with the > cell's renderer?? > > Anyone have any thoughts on this? > > Thanks! > Adrian >
