Help please: Print contents of styled Texture in color

Targets macOS
1

Hello,

How can I print the contents of a styled text area as it appears 'WYSIWYG"? or as a single color other than black?

Thanks.

Lennox

2

You need to iterate thru the styleruns in the TextArea and parse the attributes from each one.
or use DRAWBLOCK

3

Please note, StyledTextPrinter is only available under macOS and Windows and since Xojo 2016r4 the method does not work under Windows anymore. So only under macOS.

4

but parsing styleruns, while more difficult will work on all desktop platforms

5

Thanks Dave,

All I want is one color and the text is already in that color, one text size, one Font.

I use this…
Dim stp As StyledTextPrinter
stp = TeaxtArea1.styledTextPrinter(g,MyAppprnPrinterSetup.Width - 48)
Do Until stp.EOF
stp.DrawBlock 126, 226+14, MyAppprnPrinterSetup.Height - 48
If Not stp.EOF then
g.NextPage
End if
Loop

How do I do that?

Thanks.

Lennox

6

Thanks, got it… https://documentation.xojo.com/api/text/styledtext.html

Lennox