Text Colors

SystemAdmin - Wed Apr 01 10:05:38 EDT 2009
Manilla,
I import the attached document to highlight text in different colours and using one of the Kitchen scripts (Kitchen > Columns > Display RTF attributes in Column...) it shows the following code:

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpgl252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\froman\fprq2\\fcharset0 Times New Roman;}{\f1\fnil\fcharset0 Tahoma;}}{\colortbl ;\red255\green255\blue0;}\viewkind4\ucl\pard\highlight1\lang2057\f0\fs24 Colour Highlights - Yellow\highlight0\lang1033\f1\fs1660\par}

It's not what you're after, but some of the code might provide some clues...
Simon Haydn BSc (Hons)

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Marshall Aerospace (UK)

dpechacek - Wed Apr 01 10:54:11 EDT 2009
In the DXL Reference Manual, see the diff(Buffer result, Buffer source, string removeMarkup, string insertMarkup) function.

You can use these standard values for the markup.
removeMarkup = "\cf1\strike"
insertMarkup = "\cf2\ul"

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dpechacek - Wed Apr 01 10:54:11 EDT 2009
In the DXL Reference Manual, see the diff(Buffer result, Buffer source, string removeMarkup, string insertMarkup) function.

You can use these standard values for the markup.
removeMarkup = "\cf1\strike"
insertMarkup = "\cf2\ul"

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Manilla - Thu Apr 02 05:57:05 EDT 2009
I don't want to color the text in a DBE window (I know this works).
What I want is to display the differences in a TEXT attribute in a column from a module.
I will show my exemple to make an idea of what I am trying:

djakad - Thu Apr 02 10:10:47 EDT 2009
Have you tried adding a color table to the beginning of your rich text?

SystemAdmin - Fri Apr 03 05:32:00 EDT 2009
Try this:
diff(resBuf, oldBuf, newBuf, true)
*displayRichWithColor*(stringOf(resBuf))

SystemAdmin - Fri Apr 03 05:33:42 EDT 2009
That should have been posted as:
diff(resBuf, oldBuf, newBuf, true)
displayRichWithColor (stringOf(resBuf))

DEHKB - Thu Apr 16 09:16:04 EDT 2009
Hi,

has anyone been able to get this to work? I tried to include the color table, but doesn't work

Cheers Harald

dpechacek - Wed Apr 01 11:03:21 EDT 2009
Sorry didn't see that you tried the diff function. If you have it set up right you should see the colors. Make sure you're displaying the rich text string properly.

You're using displayRich(stringOf(resultBuffer)) right?

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djakad - Wed Apr 01 10:53:32 EDT 2009
Yes, it can be done. Here are a few tips and examples:

1.) To get color text or color highlighting in a Layout DXL column or in a richText box in a dialog box, you need to understand and use some basic Rich Text formatting tags.
2.) At the start of every Rich Text block of text, you will need to include a "color table", defined by the "{\\colortbl; ... }" tag.
3.) Then, you will use the "color font" tags, such as "\\cf1" or "\\cf2" to color the text. Or, you will use the "highlight" tags, such as "\\highlight1" or "\\highlight2", to use a color highlight. The numbers refer to the colors defined in the "color table". You use "\\cf0" and "\\highlight0" to turn off colors.
4.) In a Layout DXL column, you must use the "displayRich(string)" command, to get the colors to show in the module window.
5.) In a richText box in a dialog box, you must use the "useRTFColour(DBE,true)" command, to get the colors to show in the richText box.

Here is a sample "color table" definition:
string xColorTable = "{\\colortbl ;\\red255\\green0\\blue0;\\red0\\green255\\blue0;\\red0\\green0\\blue255;\\red255\\green255\\blue0;\\red255\\green0\\blue255;\\red0\\green255\\blue255;\\red255\\green255\\blue255;\\red0\\green0\\blue0;}"

Here is the same color table, broken out with some // comments to explain it:
string xColorTable = "{\\colortbl ;"
xColorTable = xColorTable "\\red255\\green0\\blue0;" // red \\cf1 \\highlight1
xColorTable = xColorTable "\\red0\\green255\\blue0;" // green \\cf2 \\highlight2
xColorTable = xColorTable "\\red0\\green0\\blue255;" // blue \\cf3 \\highlight3
xColorTable = xColorTable "\\red255\\green255\\blue0;" // yellow \\cf4 \\highlight4
xColorTable = xColorTable "\\red255\\green0\\blue255;" // purple \\cf5 \\highlight5
xColorTable = xColorTable "\\red0\\green255\\blue255;" // light blue \\cf6 \\highlight6
xColorTable = xColorTable "\\red255\\green255\\blue255;" // white \\cf7 \\highlight7
xColorTable = xColorTable "\\red0\\green0\\blue0;" // black \\cf8 \\highlight8
xColorTable = xColorTable "}"

For colors in a Layout DXL column, you could do something like (using the xColorTable from above):
displayRich xColorTable "{\\cf1 This is red text. \\cf0\\highlight4 This is yellow highlight \\highlight0 }"

For colors in a richText DBE in a dialog box, you could do something like (using the xColorTable from above):
string xSample = xColorTable "{\\cf1 This is red text. \\cf0\\highlight4 This is yellow highlight \\highlight0 }"
DB xDB = centered("Colors in a richText DBE")
DBE xRichText = richText(xDB,"richText DBE:","empty",360,250,false)
realize(xDB)
useRTFColour(xRichText,true)
set(xRichText,xSample)
show(xDB)

I've attached a screen shot of the richText dialog box example. With this method, you can get 16.7 million possible colors (256^3). You will have to work your own code to get the text difference comparison.