Did not know about textStyle which has opened a whole new world! Thank you so much for ruining my weekend Trevor. ;-)
hh, I love the first solution, which shows the beauty of LiveCode. But the speed is the same as before... i will try htmltext too. A while since I worked with it. Thanks again. On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 15:33, hh via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > If showing *only* lines with colored text means that all others > are hidden then you could use: > > ... > set hidden of line i of fld "text" to \ > (the textcolor of line i of fld "text" is empty) > ... > > Trevor's script would then read: > ... > put (tTextA[i]["runs"][1]["style"]["textcolor"] is empty) \ > into tTextA[i]["style"]["hidden"] > ... > > Here yet another fast method: > > on mouseUp > put the millisecs into m1 > lock screen; lock messages > put the htmltext of fld 1 into ht > set linedelimiter to "<p" > put the htmltext of fld 1 into ht > replace " hidden" with empty in ht > repeat for each line L in ht > if offset("color=",L)>0 then put "<p" & L after s > else put "<p hidden" & L after s > end repeat > set htmltext of fld 1 to s > put the millisecs-m1 into fld "timing" > end mouseUp > > > > > Kaveh wrote: > > > But here is a follow-up: Now I want to hide all lines that > > > have no text style and only show lines with colored text. > > > I use: > > > > > > repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines of fld 1 > > > if the textcolor of line i of fld "text" is not empty then > > > set the hidden of line i of fld "text" to false > > > end if > > > end repeat > > > > > > This is taking time too. Any suggestions how to speed this up? > > > > > > > Trevor wrote: > > Try working with the styledText property. > > > > put the styledText of field "text" into tTextA > > > > # loop through paragraphs > > repeat with i = 1 to the number of elements of tTextA > > # Check if first run has textcolor set > > if tTextA[i]["runs"][1]["style"]["textcolor"] is not empty then > > # hide paragraph > > put true into tTextA[i]["style"]["hidden"] > > end if > > end repeat > > > > set the styledText of fld "text" to tTextA > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Kaveh Bazargan Director River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalleytechnologies.com/> • Twitter <https://twitter.com/kaveh1000> • LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazargankaveh/> _______________________________________________ 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