Hi John I would look at the HTMLtext property in the Manual/Dictionary.
You would take your text, line by line, and wrap each one with the appropriate HTML code eg put "<font color=grey size=1>"&dateStamp&"</font>&cr into myMsg put "<font color=black size=2><b>"&firstName&&surName&"</b></font>"&cr after myMsg put "<font color=blue>"&theMessage&"</font>"&cr after myMsg set the HTMLText of fld "myField" to myMsg To get the size 16 point text you may have too set the default text size of the field to 16 - the HTML should vary it. To get the ruled line I think it will be necessary to produce a graphic line and use the <img src> tag to reference it. I haven't tried this so you may have to change the colour references to numeric values but this hopefully will put you on the correct track On 9 July 2011 08:22, John Allijn <john.all...@alice.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a textfield where I want to present a chunk of text, formatted in a > few different styles. > > This is what the text looks like: > > --- > On <timestamp> > <firstname> <Lastname> wrote: > <message text> > --- > > and this is how I like to represent it: > > - the text "on timestamp" should be gray and 8 points > - the firstname and lastname should be 10 points, black and bold > - the message should be 16 points, blue, regular. > - put in a divider-line > > The problem is that the message-text varies in length and that there may be > multiple messages in the field. This means (but maybe I'm wrong) that I have > to set the TextColor and TextSize properties while populating the field and > that I cannot do this afterwards. > > So: > - How can I set the style of the text, put some text in the field and > change the style again? > - how can I put in a horizontal line that separates the messages? > > thank you for your thoughts! > John. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Regards Ian McKnight iangmckni...@gmail.com ======================= _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
