Beat wrote:
Thanks Richard & Bj?rnke,
Richard wrote :
>
>You can use an anchor tag with no href and it will not show as
>underlined, but can store arbitrary textual data in the anchor tag's
>"name" attribute.
>...
>...
>This allows you to use anchor tags to stash info for specific runs of
>text without altering the appearance of that text.
Thanks Richard, this is really a nice way to do this.
I can use this for associating the position of the start- and end
characters.
The thing for me is, that, as long as I am working on the text of the
fields, I need to visually see which texts have a reference. the
visual help should not interfere with the textStyles of that field.
That's why I went back to setting the backColor of that part of the
text instead of using a TextStyle for it.
But as I said, the editing becomes harder, as I don't get to see my
selection (the selectionColor is probably behind the backColor). I'd
like to see the backColor of the 'marked' textparts and on top the
selectionColor of the parts that I have selected (best in 50% blend
mode). Would that be possible?
Maybe with a graphic that follows the selection, 'floating' behind
the field and setting the field's blendlevel to 15% for the time of
editing? Although I am sure there is a more elegant way.
I've tried using graphics for things like that. Seems like fun at
first, until you need to wrap across different lines. Then you need to
handle different textHeights. Then you pull out all your hair. ;)
One of the cool things about htmlText is that it's designed as the one
way to have complete fidelity for reproducing a field's contents, style
runs and all.
So conceivably you could add in tags for backgroundcolor of the text
runs you want visually distinct. It can take a bit of clever parsing to
get it right, but check out the optional third param for the offset
function in the dictionary - it's a godsend for parsing tasks like this.
To see the format of htmlText, style some text in a field how you want
it and run "put the htmlText of fld 1" in the Message Box. Everything
you can do with a field can be represented in htmlText, so conversely
you can do anything to htmlText that you can do to a field.
Hope that helps -
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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