Reformating a portion of a text field

[rsagall]

I want to be able to highlight a portion of the text in a field and then run a script to change the text's color. Is there a way to do that?

Thanks

[comment]

Sure. Something like:

If [ Get ( ActiveSelectionSize ) ] 

Insert Calculated Result [ TextColor ( Middle ( Get ( ActiveFieldContents ) ; Get ( ActiveSelectionStart ) ; Get ( ActiveSelectionSize ) ) ; RGB ( 240 ; 0 ; 0 ) ) ] 

Else 

Show Custom Dialog [ Message: "Select some text first."; Buttons: “OK” ] 

End If 

[rsagall]

That's works fine.

Now I need to be able to find text that is formatted as "strikethough" and delete it.

Thanks

[comment]

That's a whole new ball game. Do you mean find the formatted text within the field, or find records containing formatted text?

[rsagall]

Find the text within a field.

For example the text might be

"The (test) examination is cancelled" assuming the word in parens is actually a strikethrough.

Once the script is run the text would be "The examination is cancelled."

Rich

[comment]

That's going to take some work. I suggest you take a look at the GetAsSVG() function. If you direct your script to look for "text-decoration:line-through" in the StyleList branch of the result, you can then extract the Begin and End position indicators, and use them to "by-pass" the striked text. Since there can be more than one such section, your script (or custom function) needs to loop until the style cannot be found.

[Raybaudi]

Now I need to be able to find text that is formatted as "strikethough" and delete it.

Hi

try this file to have an idea...

strikethough.zip