Formatting a text through a script

[alexandraPT]

Hello,

We are trying to find a specific word in a string, and so that we are able to apply a bold or color text style (through a script method, applescipt or SQL).

Can anynone solve this problem?

We are using FileMaker 6.

Thanks, Best Regards.

Version: Developer v6

Platform: Mac OS X Jaguar

[Vaughan]

Are you trying to make the word used in the search bold or coloured?

Try using the "Perform Find / Replace" (not the Perform Find step) script step in FMP 6 to find the word. The tough part will be applying the formatting. It should be relatively straight forward in FMP 7, but a lot of work in FMP 6 to get anything remotely satisfactory.

Ray has a demo of a technique on his web site

http://www.nightwing.com.au/filemaker/

[alexandraPT]

HI! We are using The Autovalidate, Version 1.0.7, and we are constructing a customized error message. We used the command "autovalidate_showerror", but the return error message is "The field cannot be empty" (the field is required!).

The command is ok, but we need that message in portuguese!!! Can anyone help us?:

THANks!

Version: Developer v6

Platform: Mac OS X Jaguar

[Vaughan]

Please post this question in the Lasso forum, This forum is for tips and demo files, not questions.

(I didn't realise it was the Tips forum when I answered the post above. otherwise I'd have told them the same thing.)

[Unable]

"Please post this question in the Lasso forum, This forum is for tips and demo files, not questions."

Publishing FileMaker Online >> Lasso & CDML

What am I missing?

[Vaughan]

I will SWEAR that this post was in the Articles, Tips and Hints forum.

My apologies.

"What am I missing?"

You're getting way too much sleep. *sigh*

[Jeff Spall]

Hi, if you are just looking to find each occurence of strings in the text and format them, perhaps a calculation field would work:

Substitute(thetext,"My word string","<b>My word string</b>")

and so on for each case

and then call that as

[FMPro-Field:thenewtext.RAW]

so that the tags worked

...or am I being too simple??

regards, jeff

[-Queue-]

I would too. I think someone must have moved it when you weren't looking.

Platform: Windows 2000