Hu Ian, Thanks, that may just do the trick! Thanks, John Send from my iPad
On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:53, Ian McKnight <iangmckni...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
