Hi
I am new Lingo Programmer
I am Also Working With text and field cast member for changing thir
Format such as color ,font,ect
Below is a code for text member
member(Destination).char[i].font="Ariel"
member(source).char[i].fontsize=18
member(Destination).char[i].fontstyle=[#bold,#italic]
member(Destination).char[i].forecolor=255--Blac color
Lets hope this code may help you
bye
Best of luck
we will meet again
----- Original Message -----
From: Luke Wigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: <lingo-l> font color of a specific char
> on 27/9/00 12:35 PM, kim maboy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Hi I am not sure if this is possible, but I would like
> > to specify the color of a specific character in a
> > field. So far I have tried this with no success. This
> > is what I tried:
> >
> > set the color of char 15 of field "fieldname" =
> > color.(#rgb, 255, 0, 0)
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been working with Director since it was Videoworks and it still takes
> me several attempts to get the syntax right every time I want to set the
> colour or fontstyle of a line / word / char of a field or text member. Its
> bloody ridiculous!
>
> Anyway, sorry for the rant. This syntax will work for TEXT members (but
not
> FIELD members)
>
> member("atextmember").char[2].color = color(#rgb, 255, 0, 0)
>
> This will work with FIELDS (but not TEXT members)
>
> set the forecolor of char 2 of field("afield") = 32
>
> (note - the forecolor and backColor is "the decimal equivalent of the
24-bit
> hexadecimal value", which is slightly different from the RGB or
PaletteIndex
> of a color or bgColor)
>
> ... continuing the rant:
>
> The lingo help player says the forecolor is a cast member property which
> "sets the foreground color of a FIELD cast member", and gives as an
> example...
>
> member("myDescription").line[2].word[3].forecolor = 27
>
> ...which will NOT work on FIELDS.
>
>
> Another example of the mess of lingo and text:
>
> [This is cut from the lingo help system]
>
> "This statement sets the fontStyle member property for the FIELD
> cast member Poem to bold italic:
> member("Poem").fontStyle = [#bold, #italic]
>
> This is completely wrong. It will work for TEXT members, but to continue
the
> fine tradition of making formatting text with lingo as confusing as
> possible, fields expect a string specifying the fontstyle rather than a
list
> of symbols -- eg
>
> member("afield").fontstyle = "bold"
> member("aTextMember").fontstyle = [#bold]
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Luke Wigley
> Multimedia Hack
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