fxruby users - Dec 2008 - Styled text on arrays

I have a few questions with FX colors for styling text.

I have a GUI with a FXText frame which upon running my programs is populated
with the contents of an array in a separate method using the
@evtrievefindings.join("\n"). This array is populated in a method with
quite a lot of information throughout the running of the program eg.

if 100
@evtrievefindings.push "info"
end
if 200 
@evtrievefindings.push "different info"

end

I was wondering can I use styled text to assign one occurance of
@evtrievefindings.push as being in the colour red, eg.

if 100

@evtrievefindings.push "info"

end

if 200 

@evtrievefindings.push.changestyle "different info"


end

Does this make sense? Basically I want my program to write the contents of the
array to the text frame as normal but when data meets one criteria I want the
data written to the array to be a colour.

I know you can use FX to colour specified text, however I do not know what the
text is.

Thanks in adavnce.



      
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On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:00 AM, Stuart Clarke wrote:
> I was wondering can I use styled text to assign one occurance of  
> @evtrievefindings.push as being in the colour red, eg.
>
> if 100
> @evtrievefindings.push "info"
> end
> if 200
> @evtrievefindings.push.changestyle "different info"
> end
>
> Does this make sense? Basically I want my program to write the  
> contents of the array to the text frame as normal but when data  
> meets one criteria I want the data written to the array to be a  
> colour.
If what you''re asking is whether you can embed some sort of markup in  
the text itself to change the text style (e.g. as you do with HTML),  
and the answer to that question is no.

What you might want to investigate is appending text to the FXText  
window incrementally (instead of setting the content in one fell  
swoop), e.g.

	@evtrievefindings.each do |finding|
		text_widget.appendText(finding + "\n")
	end

And then once you''ve got that working, switch over to using styled  
text. You would still need to keep some sort of indicator in the  
@etrievefindings array (or a parallel array), but you could at least  
know which style to apply:

	@etrievefindings.each do |finding|
		if condition1
			text_widget.appendStyledText(finding + "\n", style1)
		else
			text_widget.appendStyledText(finding + "\n", style2)
		end
	end

Hope this helps,

Lyle
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Oh that is a shame, it would be useful if somone could figure that out. Thanks
for your suggestion though I will give it a go.
?
Many thanks

--- On Mon, 1/12/08, Lyle Johnson <lyle at lylejohnson.name> wrote:

From: Lyle Johnson <lyle at lylejohnson.name>
Subject: Re: [fxruby-users] Styled text on arrays
To: fxruby-users at rubyforge.org
Date: Monday, 1 December, 2008, 4:16 PM





On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:00 AM, Stuart Clarke wrote:





I was wondering can I use styled text to assign one occurance of
@evtrievefindings.push as being in the colour red, eg.

if 100
@evtrievefindings.push "info"
end
if 200 
@evtrievefindings.push.changestyle "different info"
end

Does this make sense? Basically I want my program to write the contents of the
array to the text frame as normal but when data meets one criteria I want the
data written to the array to be a colour.

If what you''re asking is whether you can embed some sort of markup in
the text itself to change the text style (e.g. as you do with HTML), and the
answer to that question is no.


What you might want to investigate is appending text to the FXText window
incrementally (instead of setting the content in one fell swoop), e.g.


@evtrievefindings.each do |finding|

text_widget.appendText(finding + "\n")

end



And then once you''ve got that working, switch over to using styled
text. You would still need to keep some sort of indicator in the
@etrievefindings array (or a parallel array), but you could at least know which
style to apply:


@etrievefindings.each do |finding|

if condition1

text_widget.appendStyledText(finding + "\n", style1)

else

text_widget.appendStyledText(finding + "\n", style2)

end

end



Hope this helps,


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