Xpress 4.11 - further colour question
Xpress 4.11 - further colour question
- Subject: Xpress 4.11 - further colour question
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:55:43 +0100
I'm having trouble finding an efficient way of acheiving something in QXP.
I currently have a text box which I flow some text into. The result looks
something like this:
prod 1
prod 2
prod 3
prod 4 50% Off
Prod 5 50% Off
I want to change the colour of the "50% Off" bit if it appears. When it
does appear, it always appears after the tab and before a return, but may
say anything from "10% Off" to "Buy 3 Get 1 Free"
Basically, what I want to acheive is
repeat with i from 1 to the number of lines in story 1 of text box 1
if tab is in line i of story 1 of text box 1 then
set color of words between tab and return of line i of story 1 of text box
1 to "Some Colour"
end if
end repeat
At the moment, all I've acheived is a long winded loop that checks each
character to see if it's between a tab and a return.
dumbed-down version: (Only 'dumded down' because the full length isn't
relevant!)
if char x is tab then set tabcounter to 1
if char x is return then set tabcounter to 0
if tabcounter is 1 then set color of char x to "some colour"
This is because I can't use the standard additions Offset as QXP thinks I
mean the Offset property of a text box and complains about "making some
data into the expected type".
Any suggestions greatfully received
Thanks in advance
Steve
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