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Re: setting text color in Rich Edit

• Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET> Oct 09, 2000
• 682 views

OOps!  Forgot about that! Sorry.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith Evans" <camping at FLASH.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: setting text color in Rich Edit


> Yeah, but the exe exw might not like Richtext format and I don't want to
> write out two files, one to reload with and one for Euphoria.
>
> Judith
>
>
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 07:06:48 -0700, Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET>
wrote:
>
> >Judith,
> >
> >I *think* in order for a file to get "naturally" colorized as it Streams
> in,
> >it has to have been *saved* in some ".rtf" format; but since what's *in*
> the
> >Rich Edit control is what would be saved, if it were colorized by Derek's
> >trick *as it were typed* (similar to what David has happening), then it
> >would (nearly automatically?) be saved in that format??  Then when it
> >Streams in, presto, auto color.
> >
> >Dan
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Judith Evans" <camping at FLASH.NET>
> >To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> >Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 6:53 AM
> >Subject: Re: setting text color in Rich Edit
> >
> >
> >> Derek,
> >>
> >> That helps a lot for text already in the RichEdit. But lets pretend we
> >have
> >> a text file - or whatever not already richEdit - and want to colorize
it
> >as
> >> we putStream or before we putStream?
> >>
> >> Do you know a solution to that?
> >>
> >> I suppose we could kludge it and inspect the data after streaming into
> the
> >> RichEdit and colorize it then but it seems it would be faster to
colorize
> >as
> >> we putStream.
> >>
> >> Judith
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:36:06 +1100, Derek Parnell
> ><dparnell at BIGPOND.NET.AU>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> >Its undocumented but the setIndex() routine can be used to select text
> on
> >> >RichEdit controls.
> >> >
> >> >eg..
> >> >    -- Select characters 30 - 43 inclusive...
> >> >    setIndex(RE, {30, 43})
> >> >
> >> >I should really update the docs on this one. 
> >> >
> >> >----
> >> >cheers,
> >> >Derek