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October 30, 2005 3:19:07 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
Hey all.. need some help..

I'm working on a widget/gadget and its going to be showing a bunch of text that is being read from somewhere else, formatted and put together into one big text string. Here is my problem(s).

I need to be able to change PART of this string to look like this:

Name1 Name2
Name3 Name4

And i also would like to change some color too. Is this possible?
I would hope that DX could use font size/color/etc.

If this is answered somewhere else PLEASE let me know.
I'm going to Google the crap out of the web to see.

Thanks all!
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Reply #1 October 30, 2005 5:33:06 PM
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The good news: You can change the font characteristics for DX text objects, either in the properties dialog or by script.

The bad news: AFAIK, it only applies to the entire object.

If you want different portions of your string to have different font options, I think you will need to use multiple objects, and just position them to achieve the effect you want.

DX documentation:

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Reply #2 October 30, 2005 5:44:08 PM
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problem is that wont work well.. its a list that can change length over and over.

Its a list of sports scores, and it will change over time, some going away some being added.
Its a pain to have to create a ton of objects for this simple operation.
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Reply #3 October 30, 2005 6:09:20 PM
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Unless you need the background of the text to be transparent you can use the rich edit control. If you need/want the background to the texturized/background image you could use the IE control. (With the IE control you can even make it editable as well)
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RomanDA
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Reply #4 October 30, 2005 6:14:02 PM
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Do you have an example of the "rich edit control"?
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Reply #5 October 31, 2005 12:28:35 PM
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After trying to use them myself, it appears that the font properties for script access do not work properly. For instance, the Object.FontName property seems to be read-only, despite what the docs say, and the Object.FontSize property returns False, which if applied to a font, makes it really small!
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Reply #6 October 31, 2005 12:37:36 PM
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Yes, the docs are wrong. Only SetFont works. Which forces you to define all the font properties. Quite akward.
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Reply #7 October 31, 2005 12:38:10 PM
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Thanks MD...

I found a widget that used a web page that was being generated by a script in the object. I was able to make it work, now i need to figure out how to work out the scrolling problems..

Since its a list of games, if you are watching game 5 and you scroll over to it, you want it to stay on game 5 even when it refreshes the HTML page.

Anyone know how to find out what the scrolling is on an html box, and restore to that position?

I was thinking something like bookmarks?
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Reply #8 October 31, 2005 12:57:23 PM
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Do you have an example of the "rich edit control"?

Not on how to use it from DX, no. It's called "Microsoft Rich Textbox Control" in the list of ActiveX controls.
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