OpenEuphoria

Re: Setting the Font color

• Posted by Matthew Lewis <MatthewL at KAPCOUSA.COM> Aug 21, 2000
• 514 views

> From: Bryan O'Gorman

> I'm trying to change the color of the text in an
> Win32Lib MleText box and then printing a user ID in
> that color.  Change the color without prompting the
> user that is.  I'm VERY illiterate in C.. if that's
> what my problem is.

You can't have multiple colored text in an MleText box.  To do that, you'll
need to use a RichEdit, which hasn't made its way to the official win32lib
release yet, but it's in my extended version.  Use setFont to change the
color of a selection of text.

You can use setFont and putStream to accomplish this

> The format is like this:
>
> (green) (your choice)
> userID: message

<snip>

>
> -- <IMPORTANT PART>
> -- Send the message you have typed in the
> -- sendmsg control
> procedure IMsendMessage()
>
>         -- This is a space filler for now
>         current = getText(msgs)
>         msg = getText(sendmsg)
>         setText(sendmsg, "")
>         -- Right here is where I want to set
>         -- the font color for the variable
>         -- userID

-- Instead of setText, use:
                setFont( sendmsg, {useridcolor, fontName}, pointSize,
attributes)
-- If we don't use StreamSelection, then the entire contents will be
replaced
                putStream( sendmsg, or_bits(StreamSelection, StreamText),
"userID:" )
                setFont( sendmsg, {defaultcolor, fontName}, pointSize,
attributes)
                putStream( sendmsg, or_bits(StreamSelection, StreamText),
msg & CRLF & current )

>         setText(msgs, userID&": "&msg&CRLF&current)
>
> end procedure
> -- </IMPORTANT PART>
>

Hope this helps.

Matt