Thanks for your reply, Jan. I just found your reply in SPAM, lol. Anyhow, the team decided that black text is just fine. :)
~Roger On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Jan Schenkel <janschen...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Roger, > > Sorry for the late reply - I was at the Devoxx conference this past week > and am only now wading through my email backlog. > > As you found out, the qrtPDF_WriteTextTable command doesn't currently > offer a way to influence the formatting for an individual cell. > It was designed for single formatting, and adding a callback function to > let you influence the formatting per cell means it will need some > refactoring. > After all, if you were to change not only the colour but also the font > style or size, the calculation of the row heights becomes a lot more > complex. > That is not to say that the idea is too hard to pursue, but it will take > time to get it 'right' under all circumstances. > > In the meantime, you can build the table with separate qrtPDF_WriteTextBox > commands, as demonstrated in Example 4 of the script demos stack. > If you need a hand with that, feel free to post on the Quartam forums at < > http://forums.quartam.com> or email me directly. > > Best regards, > > Jan Schenkel. > > ===== > Quartam Reports & PDF Library for LiveCode > www.quartam.com > > ===== > "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." > (La Rochefoucauld) > > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 11/7/16, Roger Eller <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com> wrote: > > Subject: [OT] Quartum PDF Library - How to change text color of a cell in > a table? > To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Date: Monday, November 7, 2016, 9:41 PM > > I am using Jan Shenkel's PDF Library > in a project, and need to display > negative numbers in a table in red. > It seems to be possible to affect the entire table, but how > can I apply > color commands to a specific cell? > > TIA, > ~Roger > > _______________________________________________ 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
