Style Manipulation

[The Shadow]

I've added an *in-progress* style-manipulation example to my website:

http://www.spf-15.com/fmExamples/

I didn't include it as an attachment since it still needs quite a bit of work.

It makes heavy use of custom functions to show how style information can be obtained and manipulated. As a result, there is little point in downloading this example unless you have FM Dev 7.

The three examples I've implemented in this file:

- Visine: remove all redness from a piece of text, leaving other colors unaltered.

- RedToBlue: Moves the red component of all text to the blue component, green is unaltered.

- ItalicToBold: Changes all Italic text to Bold, all other formatting information is unaltered.

These all work by manipulating the style information obtained via the GetAsCSS() built-in, and there are numerous custom functions to assist in breaking apart the style information embedded there.

Limitations / in-progress:

- htmlDecode: I've only implemented the absolute minimum so far, so it doesn't completely undo the html encoding of special symbols GetAsCSS() does.

- subscript / superscript: These two manipulate the font point-size as well as the style in CSS, and I haven't determined precisely how to recognize them yet.

Any assistance or suggestions would be appreciated.

[The Shadow]

I've now added support for most accented characters in htmlDecode(), that was a little trickier than I thought, since the html escape codes are case sensitive for those.

I've also worked around my troubles with subscript / superscript. GetAsCSS() gives two "font-size" numbers when the text isn't at the default size. I reported this to FMI as a bug.

The latest version (on my website) also has a variety of functions to extract text out of HTML data using tag names, which could be used in conjunction with the style methods to pull styled text from a website.

http://www.spf-15.com/fmExamples/