How to use several "StyledText.Underline" in a TextArea

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#1

I would like to use StyledText.Underline in a TextArea. Once it works fine.
But as soon as I try to underline several different places (interrupted with non underlined text) only the last one is underlined.
The earlier ones are normal again.

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks and good health!

PS: I’m working on and for MacOs.

#2

show how you are doing it

#3

The TextArea I’m writing into is part of a subtiling app. Into the Textstring I have to implement control characers for video that have to be shown in a human readable form. Thus I try to write the control codes als letters with underscore using Methods like this:

[i]Select Case UT_Text_Cont_3.Aktuelle_Zeile
Case 1 //unten

Sel_Start=UT_Text_Cont_3.Zeile_unten_TextField.SelectionStart
UT_Text_Cont_3.Zeile_unten_TextField.Text=Left(UT_Text_Cont_3.Zeile_unten_TextField.Text,Sel_Start)+“Y”+Right(UT_Text_Cont_3.Zeile_unten_TextField.Text,Len(UT_Text_Cont_3.Zeile_unten_TextField.Text)-Sel_Start)

UT_Text_Cont_3.Zeile_unten_TextField.StyledText.Underline(Sel_Start,1)=True

Case 2 //mitte …

…
end[/i]

As I said the problem is that if I write the 2nd code the first loses his underline.

#4

Every time you set .Text, it clears all styles. Maybe use .AppendText instead.

#5

Thanks, Tim!
.AppendText just has been deprecated. I’ll test with .AddText if this makes a difference.

#6

Please use .selText to change text with new style.

e.g.

textArea1.selstart = position textArea1.sellength = 0 textArea1.selunderline = true textArea1.seltext = "New Text"

to insert some new text with underline

#8

AppendText- deprecated

#10

[quote=484232:@Emile Schwarz]Thank you Franco.

Note that it is not there: https://documentation.xojo.com/api/deprecated/textedit.html
and therefore I cannot saw it (and I checked also TextField and TextArea) :wink:

Alberto: this is why I wrote the Flag “deprecated and removed” feature request.[/quote]
Correct as I did not see it there either

#11

[quote=484222:@Emile Schwarz]Where is it noted ?

I do not found it here .[/quote]

Click your link. Scroll down to 2019 Release 2, click on Full List of 2019r2 Deprecations, click on next page until you reach T section you will see TextEdit.AppendText

For a list of all deprecations (not for a particular release), you can visit this page.

Edit: the problem is that the deprecations page is multi-page, as you found out, you can’t issue a Find to search for other things not displayed on the page.

#13