Thanks Jeanne, for your fast and excellent help! It works great. So far I have only tried the first one (the field contains max 50 lines). But I will try the others later.
Thanks. Magnus On torsdag, april 18, 2002, at 12:16 , Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: > At 1:06 AM -0700 4/18/2002, Magnus von Br�msen wrote: >> on addOrder >> repeat for each line x in field "articles" >> if the foregroundColor of x = 204,0,0 then > > The problem here is that when you use this form of the repeat loop, your > variable "x" contains the actual text of the line. And a variable has no > foregroundColor as such - it's just the line contents - so no go. It's > like > saying "if the foregroundColor of "foo" is 204,0,0". > > Here's one alternative: > > on addOrder > repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines of field "articles" > -- with this form, "x" is the line number, not the contents > if the foregroundColor of line x of field "articles" is "204,0,0" > then put line x of field "articles" & return after redLine > end repeat > put redLine into field "order" > end addOrder > > That is pretty straightforward - you're checking every line in the > field, > in order - but it is not very efficient. If the field "articles" has a > lot > of lines, more speed may be needed. Here's another way that should be > faster: > > on addOrder > repeat for each line thisLine in the htmlText of field "articles" > -- "thisLine" contains the htmlText, and the htmlText contains > -- tags for all the formatting, so you can check it for color: > if "font color="#CC0000" is in thisLine > then put thisLine & return after redLine > end repeat > set the htmlText of field "order" to redLine > -- include the next line if you want to remove formatting from > -- the "order" field (formatting is still there because you used > -- the htmlText): > put field "order" into field "order" > end addOrder > > -- > Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Runtime Revolution Limited - The Solution for Software Development > http://www.runrev.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
