Sorry to be so dense but can you colorize text without a field? Or are you running through the text as an XML tree (either Rev's or your own) or manually editing HTML text behind the scenes and adding a colorization attribute?
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Malte Brill <revolut...@derbrill.de> wrote: > Thanks for all the suggestions. Need some time to try them out. I really > like Thierrys RegEx approach and the others look promissing too. > > @Walt: In the real live Scenario I try to colorize Structured Data (e.G. > XML, but others too). I need to walk through the whole dataset token by > token and really have the token number I am interested in. I need to find > the start and end position inside of the dataset (e.G. token 79 starts at > char 400 and ends at 402). > The datasets can potentially be huge. A field would add quite a bit of > overhead here, which I am not necessariely keen on. :-) > Also the dataset *might* be that huge and to make it worse actually be on > a single line, that a field would cut off some of the data, while a > variable would not. > > Ultimate goal is to have a tiny text editor, that can colorize the data > and point out where in the data it is potentionally malformed and ideally > what the error is. > > All the best, > > Malte > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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