converting styledtext to StringShape

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#1

Hi

I have some styled text in a textarea and wanted to add it to a canvas - I thought I would use the stringshape object to do this. I am extracting each character and then assigning it to a stringshape think that the attributes would be retained but they’re not - something like (I know I have not addressed the spacing yet)

  dim x2 as new StringShape
    dim x3 as StyledText 
    for J=1 to Len(textarea1.text)
      X3.text=Mid(textarea1.text,J,1)
      x2.text=x3.text      
      g.Drawobject(X2,500+8*j,200)
    next J

In the above code X2 does not retain the style of X3 - for instance if it is underlined then this is removed as are any colours, fonts etc…

Where am I going wrong?

Thanks

#2

When you copy text from a .text property, you’re just copying the string, not the style.

Unfortunately, there’s no way to automatically copy the style from a textArea to a StringShape. You’ll have to do it manually, stepping through the Styleruns and applying those same characteristics (font, size, emphasis) to the StringShape.

#3

Thank you for your reply Marc. Yes I started that way but its around 50-100 words which coukd contain over 20 styleruns or more so was just looking for another way to annotate my charts. C’est la vie. Thanks anyway.

#4