I was going to suggest looking at styledText too, but it is kind of
tricky to insert a run within the array.
I think Richmond should look at some of the text routines in the
masterLibrary. There are several that might be interesting:
LineOffsets returns a list of lines that contain a string within
container - create a list of each line that contains "only"
WordOffsets returns a list of word offsets of a string within a
container - create a new list that has line number and the word offsets
within the line.
wordBounds returns the start and end character of a word specified by
line number and work offset. - Based on the line number and word
offset, get the start and end character and change the color within the
field variable with the screen locked.
On 8/10/15 1:59 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
It sounds like you might want to look at the styledtext. Its a bit
convoluted, but once you get it figured out, it should be very fast.
Pseudo code for this would be..
put the text of the field into a variable.
repeat for each line (paragraph) and build up an array of "runs" with
descriptive text styling for each paragraph.
Apply the resulting array to the field.
Sounds simple.. Isn't.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Michael Doub <miked...@gmail.com> wrote:
Yet another approach:
put "this is the only one" into fld 1
put empty into s1
put empty into e1
get MatchChunk (line 1of fld 1,"(?i).+(only).+",s1,e1)
-- the regexp capture returns the start and end characters the match
set the textcolor of char s1 to e1 of line 1 of fld 1 to red
On 8/10/15 12:03 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
You can do this.. Still a bit ugly but it works.
set the textcolor of trueword ( truewordoffset("only",line 5 of field 1))
of line 5 of field 1 to red
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 10/08/15 16:51, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
@Mark
There is nothing wrong with setting the textColor of an entire line. Any
valid chunk expression would do.
No, there is nothing wrong with that, but that is not what I want to do.
Richmond.
@, Richmond:
What are you seeing? Why does it not work? I am in v 6.7.
Craig Newman
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