Can you have multpile font colors in a concatenated string?

[DougFerguson]

Just as the title says:

Can you have multpile font colors in a concatenated string?

Can this be done programically? If so, how?

Doug

[lmtis]

To the best of my knowlege, font properties are properties of controls and indicators, not strings.  I'll be interested to see if anyone knows otherwise.

[Ben]

I have to agree with Jim on this one. If you really need to mix colors, the picture control can be used.

Ben

[smercurio_fc]

Sure you can. Can I Programmatically Change the Font, Color, or Size of a Subset of Text in a String?

[falkpl]

A string type has just the character information associated with it but you can have multiple colors in a string control through property nodes.  Its a bit of a pain but you set the start and stop selects then change the text color.

Paul

[falkpl]

See attached.

Paul

[DougFerguson]

Thanks a bunch. Just what I was looking for.

[Ben]

I stand corrected!

I never tried looking under Font since there were already two other color properties.

I tip my hat to you Paul! Here, have some stars.

Ben

[lmtis]

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Thanks Paul, that's why I love this place.
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But it is a property of the indicator/control, not the string itself.


Message Edited by lmtis on 02-29-2008 12:49 PM

[smercurio_fc]

If I were vain I'd feel hurt because the KB article that I pointed to says exactly that regarding SelStart and SelEnd and even provides an example. However, I'm not vain, as far as I know. 

Paul did have a very colorful example, though. Reminded me of when the <COLOR> tag was introduced by Netscape and you started seeing all those web pages that made your eyes hurt.